Sorry I cannot remember since it was 10 months ago...
Linux Kernel Developer Interview Questions
61 linux kernel developer interview questions shared by candidates
How do you find the process that is using a lot of CPU and identify the reason for the high usage?
Q: alignment of structures in C
How to debug memory leak in kernel.
What kind of experience have you had in the past working with linux What is an inline function/ volatile/static keywords (basic C functions to gauge your competency)
Describe the difference between a Mutex and a Spinlock and why you would use one instead of the other?
How long is the interrupt latency in Linux?
I told him I did bare-metal programming for more than 10 years. so he said that I should know how multiple CPUs are initialized.
there are 2 frogs that can jump just if the height of the next index is <= the current height, find the maximum space between them in O(n)
I was asked to refactor and extend some structs. They were looking for proper use of templates and partial template specialization. I imagine that this sort of this is quite relevant when hiring C++ engineers and they were fair and well structured problems. The problem was that anyone who has been spending their time working on Linux device drivers or kernel development has most likely not going to be well versed in template syntax. I am not.
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