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Questions on OS,Process (child, orphan , zombie, deamon ), Memory Mgmt. , Process Sync. (in depth knowledge like how actually these things get executed , not bookish knowledge). It all started with the question of "what happens when you type ls-command in linux terminal and press enter ". Qs on linux system calls like fork() and exec(). Questions on Networks. All 7 Layers of OSI . packets data gram, NAT, DHCP, ARP, Routing (in depth knowledge), Transport Layer, Network Layer, Application Layer ,DLL in depth discussion. It all started with the question of what happens when you type www.google.com in the url and press enter. nslookup(), source routing. A lot of packet routing, multicast , anycast ,broadcast based questions. A good number of public IP and private IP based routing questions were asked. In depth discussion on projects. Designing a load balancer . Several scenarios were given according to them come up with modifications and solutions. what is a bootloader , How does it work?
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SRE

Interviewed at Directi

4
Sep 9, 2019

Questions on OS,Process (child, orphan , zombie, deamon ), Memory Mgmt. , Process Sync. (in depth knowledge like how actually these things get executed , not bookish knowledge). It all started with the question of "what happens when you type ls-command in linux terminal and press enter ". Qs on linux system calls like fork() and exec(). Questions on Networks. All 7 Layers of OSI . packets data gram, NAT, DHCP, ARP, Routing (in depth knowledge), Transport Layer, Network Layer, Application Layer ,DLL in depth discussion. It all started with the question of what happens when you type www.google.com in the url and press enter. nslookup(), source routing. A lot of packet routing, multicast , anycast ,broadcast based questions. A good number of public IP and private IP based routing questions were asked. In depth discussion on projects. Designing a load balancer . Several scenarios were given according to them come up with modifications and solutions. what is a bootloader , How does it work?

They give you a silly test to do, to build a whole monitoring stack (alerts/logs/metrics) and on top of it, whole HTTP stack with an app that you write (srsly). This task takes team efforts but they manage to put it in the interview process.
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Interviewed at Klarna

3.1
Mar 26, 2020

They give you a silly test to do, to build a whole monitoring stack (alerts/logs/metrics) and on top of it, whole HTTP stack with an app that you write (srsly). This task takes team efforts but they manage to put it in the interview process.

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