Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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In the initial phone screening, I was asked to to rank the following in terms of speed: access a register, access main memory, perform a context switch, hd seek time). What type of context switch they meant was not specified.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Nov 2, 2015

In the initial phone screening, I was asked to to rank the following in terms of speed: access a register, access main memory, perform a context switch, hd seek time). What type of context switch they meant was not specified.

During the first call, I was prompted at first with very basic questions about operating system and networking, then in went deeper on questions like: "what happen if you type telnet www.google.com", the questions within this one ranged from "tell me the process uses the OS to create that connection" to "how the data travels through the internet to reach the target server". The second call went even deeper in troubleshooting Linux, web servers, dns, load balancing, IP, routing and so on. Also, the recruiter asked me to code some python and bash scripts in order to solve some problems made for that interview
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Dec 10, 2013

During the first call, I was prompted at first with very basic questions about operating system and networking, then in went deeper on questions like: "what happen if you type telnet www.google.com", the questions within this one ranged from "tell me the process uses the OS to create that connection" to "how the data travels through the internet to reach the target server". The second call went even deeper in troubleshooting Linux, web servers, dns, load balancing, IP, routing and so on. Also, the recruiter asked me to code some python and bash scripts in order to solve some problems made for that interview

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