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Screening: Started with knowledge questions about fundamentals in my field, then a scripting questions (processing data with command line tools), and 2 fairly easy coding questions (and you can run tests; a breeze if you do program). On-site: Industry standard back to back interviews with 2 design, 2 coding, and 1 behavioral. For me there was also an additional design interview with a role specific question.
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Principal Engineer

Interviewed at Roblox

3.8★
Mar 6, 2021

Screening: Started with knowledge questions about fundamentals in my field, then a scripting questions (processing data with command line tools), and 2 fairly easy coding questions (and you can run tests; a breeze if you do program). On-site: Industry standard back to back interviews with 2 design, 2 coding, and 1 behavioral. For me there was also an additional design interview with a role specific question.

Design a system for ingesting 100 million logs per day from various cloud providers, running "queries" against the logs and sending results to B2B customers' on prem monitoring systems (plus quite a few other requirements).
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Principal Software Engineer

Interviewed at Vectra AI

3.9★
Dec 22, 2024

Design a system for ingesting 100 million logs per day from various cloud providers, running "queries" against the logs and sending results to B2B customers' on prem monitoring systems (plus quite a few other requirements).

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