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I was told to describe the OSI layer. And I was given the scenario of there being two devices placed at the same place on two different instances, but with both giving different throughputs. I was told to go over the layers and explain what potential problems in every subsequent layer would contribute to the reduction in date throughputs even though most of the specifications were the same for both the devices in terms of hardware.
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Systems Test Engineering, WLAN

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.8
Jul 5, 2012

I was told to describe the OSI layer. And I was given the scenario of there being two devices placed at the same place on two different instances, but with both giving different throughputs. I was told to go over the layers and explain what potential problems in every subsequent layer would contribute to the reduction in date throughputs even though most of the specifications were the same for both the devices in terms of hardware.

1st round: - how to debug a server that's not working in within a rack if you can't ping it and if you can ping it - given pseudo commands for accessing information for the server, how would I use them to collect data 2nd round: - virtual memory - computer architecture
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Hardware Systems Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Sep 9, 2022

1st round: - how to debug a server that's not working in within a rack if you can't ping it and if you can ping it - given pseudo commands for accessing information for the server, how would I use them to collect data 2nd round: - virtual memory - computer architecture

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