🧩 List<String> names = Arrays.

asList("Shiva","Krsna","Krsna","Phani");

· Java 8+ features in depth

· Oops concepts knowledge and usage

· Collections

· Multithreading

· Spring core

· Spring JDBC

· Spring restful services

· Spring boot

· JUnit test cases writing

· Experience on working on micro services architecture

· Design patterns experience like factory design pattern.

· Working on multi tier architecture like extracting data from different source systems and
processing the data to target systems to files or in db.

Java 8 Coding Questions (Novice → Expert)

🟢 Level 1 — Easy (Basic Hands-On, Core Syntax)

1. Write a lambda expression to print all elements of a list.

2. Convert a list of integers to their squares using a stream.

3. Use a lambda to sort a list of strings by length.

4. Create a functional interface Calculator with one method operate(int a, int b) and implement
addition using a lambda.

5. Write a program to filter even numbers from a list using Stream API.

6. Count how many strings start with “A” in a list using streams.

7. Create a list of names and print only those names with length greater than 4 using streams.

8. Use a Consumer functional interface to print all items of a list.

9. Create a stream from an array and find the maximum number.

10. Write a lambda expression to check if a number is prime.

🟡 Level 2 — Medium (Realistic Stream Processing)

11. Given a list of employees, filter only those with salary > 50,000 and collect their names into a
list.
 12. Convert a list of strings to uppercase and remove duplicates using streams.

13. Find the sum of all even numbers in a list using reduce().

14. Use Optional to handle possible null values safely in a method that returns a string length.

15. Given a list of integers, find the second highest number using streams.

16. Sort a list of custom objects (e.g., Employee by age) using a lambda comparator.

17. Use Predicate chaining to filter numbers greater than 10 and even.

18. Use a stream to count the number of words in a text file.

19. Concatenate a list of strings into a single string separated by commas using
[Link]().

20. Create a stream of random numbers and print the first 5 using limit().

🟠 Level 3 — Advanced Functional Interfaces

21. Implement your own version of Function<T, R> to convert Employee objects into their
names.

22. Combine two Functions using andThen() to first trim and then convert a string to uppercase.

23. Use a Supplier to generate a random UUID every time it’s called.

24. Use a BiPredicate to check if the sum of two integers is even.

25. Create a chain of Consumers to print a string, then its length, then its uppercase version.

26. Write a program that takes a List<Integer> and removes duplicates using a stream and
distinct().

27. Use a stream to partition a list of integers into even and odd numbers using
[Link]().

28. Implement a reusable method that accepts a Predicate and filters any list.

29. Write a lambda to sort a map by its values.

30. Demonstrate the use of peek() in a stream pipeline for debugging.

🔵 Level 4 — Method References & Optional Mastery

31. Replace a lambda with a method reference in a stream that prints all items.

32. Use a constructor reference to create a list of Employee objects from a list of names.

33. Demonstrate all 4 types of method references (static, instance, particular object,
constructor).

34. Use [Link]() and [Link]() difference in a real example.

35. Chain multiple Optional operations to safely fetch nested properties from an object.
 36. Use [Link]() to provide a default value lazily.

37. Convert a List<Optional<String>> into a List<String> using flatMap().

38. Demonstrate how to throw a custom exception when Optional is empty using orElseThrow().

39. Filter out nulls from a list using Optional and streams.

40. Use [Link]() to perform conditional checks elegantly.

🔴 Level 5 — Expert (Complex Stream Operations)

41. Given a list of transactions, group them by type and find total value per type using
[Link]().

42. Write a program to find the most frequent element in a list using streams.

43. Read a CSV file and calculate the average of a numeric column using streams.

44. Flatten a list of lists (e.g., List<List<Integer>>) into a single list using flatMap().

45. Given a list of words, find all unique characters using streams.

46. Use reduce() to concatenate a list of strings with a space in between.

47. Parallelize a large computation (sum of squares of numbers 1–1,000,000) using

48. Create a custom collector that counts the total number of words in a stream.

49. Write a program to find the top 3 highest-paid employees using streams.

50. Use the new [Link] API to find the number of days between two given dates and print
formatted output.

Streams & Numbers

1. Using IntStream, print all prime numbers between 1 and 100.

2. Generate the first 20 Fibonacci numbers using [Link].

3. Find the factorial of a number using Java 8 Streams.

4. Using IntStream, find the sum of all even numbers between 1 and 50.

5. Find the maximum and minimum from a list of integers using Streams.

6. Count the number of numbers divisible by 3 and 5 in a given list using Streams.

7. Convert a list of integers into a list of their squares using Streams.

Strings & Characters

8. Count the frequency of each character in a given string using Streams.

10. Convert a list of sentences into a list of words using flatMap.

11. Find all palindromic words in a list of strings using Streams.

12. Given a string, find the number of vowels using Streams.

13. Sort words in a sentence alphabetically using Streams.

14. Group words in a sentence by their length using [Link].

Employee / Custom Class

15. Given a list of Employee(name, salary), find the highest paid employee.

16. Group employees by salary using [Link].

17. Sort employees by name and then by salary using Streams and Comparator.

18. Find the average salary of employees using [Link].

19. Partition employees into two groups: salary > 50000 and ≤ 50000.

20. Find employees whose names start with a specific letter using Streams.

21. Convert a list of employees into a map of <name, salary> using [Link].

Collectors & Grouping

22. Count the number of employees in each department using [Link].

23. Find the sum of salaries for each department using [Link] and
[Link].

24. Find the employee with the highest salary in each department.

25. Group a list of strings by their first character using Streams.

Miscellaneous / Functional Operations

26. Combine two functions using andThen or compose to transform a string (trim + uppercase).

27. Filter a list of integers to remove duplicates and sort them using Streams.

28. Flatten a list of lists of integers into a single list using flatMap.

29. Given a list of strings, find the top 3 most frequent strings using Streams.

30. Count the number of empty strings in a list using Streams.