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Top 39 Scala Interview Questions

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Scala Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

What are the use of an underscore _ in Scala?

  
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Q2:   

What is Type Inference in Scala?

  
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Q3:   

What is the difference between Java’s void and Scala’s Unit?

  
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Q4:   

What is the difference between class and object in Scala?

  
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Q5:   

Is there any difference between ::: and ++ for concatenating lists in Scala?

  
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Q6:   

Give and example of a trait and when are they best used in Scala?

  
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Q7:   

Explain the difference between for-loop and for-comprehension in Scala?

  
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Q8:   

When do we need to avoid Type Inference and declare types implicitly in Scala?

  
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Q9:   

What's the difference between Unit and Nothing?

  
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Q10:   

How do you append to a list in Scala?

  
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Q11:   

What is a companion object in Scala?

  
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Q12:   

What is the difference between unapply and apply in Scala, when would you use them?

  
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Q13:   

What are the differences between a Scala Future and a Java Future?

  
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Q14:   

What is difference between Null, Nil and Nothing in Scala?

  
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Q15:   

What are some benefits of using Scala for Data Science?

  
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Q16:   

What will be the output of the following code in Scala?

  
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Q17:   

Name some purposes that object serves in Scala

  
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Q18:   

What is the difference between Scala's case class and class?

  
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Q19:   

What is Type Erasure in Scala?

  
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Q20:   

How do you get an element at index i from the List in Scala?

  
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Q21:   

What is the difference between def, val and lazy val in Scala?

  
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Q22:   

What is the difference between ArrayBuffer and Array in Scala?

  
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Q23:   

How can we access the value result of a Future?

  
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Q24:   

Is there any difference between Case Object and Object in Scala?

  
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Q25:   

Explain the difference between TypeTag vs ClassTag vs WeakTypeTag in Scala

  
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Q26:   

How can we overcome Type Erasure in Scala?

  
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Q27:   

Is there any reason to prefer filter+map over collect in Scala?

  
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Q28:   

What is the advantage of using Abstract Classes instead of Traits in Scala?

  
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Q29:   

What's the difference between Future and Promise in Scala?

  
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Scala Practical Challenges

Q1:   

What is the difference (if any) between these two statements in Scala?

  
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Q2:   

What will be the output of this code in Scala?

  
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Q3:   

Rewrite this two variables loop from Java to Scala

  
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Q4:   

How to implement the equivalent of Java static methods in Scala?

  
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Q5:   

Given a list of tuples List[(A, B)], return a Map[A, List[B]] in Scala. Explain.

  
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Q6:   

How can you make a List[String] from a List[List[String]] in Scala?

  
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Q7:   

Rewrite this Scala code using Feature and Promise

  
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Q8:   

Rewrite this nested for-comprehension loop using functional style code (declarative looping) in Scala

  
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Q9:   

Write a function which reverses a List without using loops and the built-in .reverse in Scala

  
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Q10:   

Calculate the Convex Hull of a given set of points in Scala

  
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