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Sr. Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

March 1, 2022
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Initial Apple recruiter interview, covering an overview of skills and experience.

Two rounds of technical interviews:

First: Hiring Manager. Included some technical and system design questions.

Second: Two coding assignments, Golang, and Linux questions.

Questions

Here are the coding assignments:

  • Define and implement two functions to count unique log entries based on defined criteria.

Golang questions:

  • Explain the difference between make(...) and new(...)
  • Explain what a closure is and how it works, with an example.

Linux:

  • Why can you sometimes not write to a file even if you have 10 GB of free memory?
  • Some questions about cron services.

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