Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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If I have to find all files which are similar in a directory, which command should I use and later he asked how that command would internally work. Given an array with each element repeated once except one, find that one and optimize the solution - both space and time.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Yahoo

4
Jun 17, 2017

If I have to find all files which are similar in a directory, which command should I use and later he asked how that command would internally work. Given an array with each element repeated once except one, find that one and optimize the solution - both space and time.

1. What happens when you type: www.google.com : the expected answer is : what happens at each OSI network layer down to packet levels, different protocols used. 2. TCP/IP handshake 3. How does SSL/TLS encryption work 4. Symmetric vs Asymmetric key 5. How to debug a network issue if a host is unreachable, commands you will use. 6. Debug an environment with high load average: mention the tools you will use, what metric you will look into 7. Explain metrics in vmstat. 8. Simple python scripting to parse a log file and find out average of a particular column. Concentrate on regex patterns to parse the log file.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Withings

3.5
Aug 14, 2020

1. What happens when you type: www.google.com : the expected answer is : what happens at each OSI network layer down to packet levels, different protocols used. 2. TCP/IP handshake 3. How does SSL/TLS encryption work 4. Symmetric vs Asymmetric key 5. How to debug a network issue if a host is unreachable, commands you will use. 6. Debug an environment with high load average: mention the tools you will use, what metric you will look into 7. Explain metrics in vmstat. 8. Simple python scripting to parse a log file and find out average of a particular column. Concentrate on regex patterns to parse the log file.

Level of experience with: - Configuration Management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation) - AWS and cloud in general - Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms - Observability tools (strangely, that garnered the least curiosity or questions)
Sep 29, 2021

Level of experience with: - Configuration Management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation) - AWS and cloud in general - Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms - Observability tools (strangely, that garnered the least curiosity or questions)

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