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Describe a skill or knowledge you acquired recently that has had meaningful impact for you. Why did you make this investment? What has the outcome been? What new skill would you like to learn? Why do you think this is important or timely or interesting? Why do you think you will be good at it? What kinds of software projects have you worked on before? Which operating systems, development environments, languages, databases? That is not a checklist, just some suggestions of what to describe you have worked with. Would you describe yourself as a high quality coder? Why? Outline your thoughts on open source software development. What is important to get right in open source projects? What open source projects have you worked on? Have you been an open source maintainer, on which projects, and what was your role? How comprehensive would you say your knowledge of a Linux distribution is, from the kernel up? How familiar are you with low-level system architecture, runtimes and Linux distro packaging? How have you gained this knowledge? Describe any experience you have with low-level embedded systems engineering, on Linux or other embedded operating systems Please describe any experience you have working in operating system kernel internal components, Linux or other. This can be device drivers, scheduler, network stack, etc, as long as it would be considered part of the core kernel. How extensive is your experience with C? What type of software components have you used it in? What about C++? Why would you use one over the other? How extensive is your experience of Python software engineering? How do you test Python applications? Outline the applications that you have led in Python, and your takeaways from that experience. Do you have experience with Rust? If so describe you proficiency in the language. Have you ever worked directly with ACPI, BIOS, EFI, and/or Devicetree? Can you elaborate?
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Junior Linux Engineer

Interviewed at Canonical

3.2★
Jul 15, 2024

Describe a skill or knowledge you acquired recently that has had meaningful impact for you. Why did you make this investment? What has the outcome been? What new skill would you like to learn? Why do you think this is important or timely or interesting? Why do you think you will be good at it? What kinds of software projects have you worked on before? Which operating systems, development environments, languages, databases? That is not a checklist, just some suggestions of what to describe you have worked with. Would you describe yourself as a high quality coder? Why? Outline your thoughts on open source software development. What is important to get right in open source projects? What open source projects have you worked on? Have you been an open source maintainer, on which projects, and what was your role? How comprehensive would you say your knowledge of a Linux distribution is, from the kernel up? How familiar are you with low-level system architecture, runtimes and Linux distro packaging? How have you gained this knowledge? Describe any experience you have with low-level embedded systems engineering, on Linux or other embedded operating systems Please describe any experience you have working in operating system kernel internal components, Linux or other. This can be device drivers, scheduler, network stack, etc, as long as it would be considered part of the core kernel. How extensive is your experience with C? What type of software components have you used it in? What about C++? Why would you use one over the other? How extensive is your experience of Python software engineering? How do you test Python applications? Outline the applications that you have led in Python, and your takeaways from that experience. Do you have experience with Rust? If so describe you proficiency in the language. Have you ever worked directly with ACPI, BIOS, EFI, and/or Devicetree? Can you elaborate?

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