Production Engineer New Grad Interview Experience - California City, California
Process
Easy questions and kind interviewers.
Learn syntaxes for file manipulation for the coding round, and learn OS, Linux troubleshooting (use methods), networking, and distributed systems concepts for the systems round.
There is also an opportunity to take a mock interview. Utilize that if you are in doubt.
Questions
Coding round:
Matching open-close brackets in a string (#20).
Two CSV files are given, each with the same primary key column. Take a column from each CSV file, compute a new variable for each row, and print the rows in decreasing order of this new variable.
Systems round:
What happens when a user searches for a website (www.cheetos.com)?
Questions about HTTPS security, TCP handshake, and DNS resolution.
What happens on the web server side when a user makes a request?
Heavy load on a single web server, load balancing, scaling, distributed system concepts, 400/500 errors and troubleshooting those errors, and synchronization of data across web servers.
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