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General Questions 1) Notice period and any concerns related to relocation to Dresden. 2) Tell me about yourself, introduction. Behavioral Questions 1) Tell me about a time when you have proposed some idea and it got resistance from your team. What you have done. 2) Tell me about a time when you have exceeded the objective of your task. What challenges you have faced and how you have overcome those. What was the outcome. Technical Questions 1) Describe what is happening in following code, all the ins/outs from the OS's perspective. Memory management etc. int main() { int *p = malloc(32 << 10); if ( p == NULL ) { perror("malloc"); return 1; } *p = 0xdeadbeef; return 0; } 2) Implement void *memcpy(void *src, void *dest, size_t size)
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Senior Kernel Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jan 8, 2019

General Questions 1) Notice period and any concerns related to relocation to Dresden. 2) Tell me about yourself, introduction. Behavioral Questions 1) Tell me about a time when you have proposed some idea and it got resistance from your team. What you have done. 2) Tell me about a time when you have exceeded the objective of your task. What challenges you have faced and how you have overcome those. What was the outcome. Technical Questions 1) Describe what is happening in following code, all the ins/outs from the OS's perspective. Memory management etc. int main() { int *p = malloc(32 << 10); if ( p == NULL ) { perror("malloc"); return 1; } *p = 0xdeadbeef; return 0; } 2) Implement void *memcpy(void *src, void *dest, size_t size)

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