How would you design a feature in Spotify?
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Leetcode medium question related to IO and dictionaries
Describe what happens when you type a URL in your browser?
Was asked in the systems screening interview to give as detailed of an explaination as I can of an operating system
The infra question described maintaining a website that crashes several times a day and I was asked to troubleshoot / describe all the things that could be going wrong.
Coding - string manipulation, list manipulation, file handling; see LeetCode company tagged problems but it mostly comes down to luck, i.e. have you seen this before? Behavioral - the usual "tell me about a time..." questions System Design - won't share too much here but check out some of the most popular Meta Research papers and conference presentations for ideas on what systems to study Operating Systems - a lot comes down to having years of Linux experience tbh, but check out Michael Kerrisk's "The Linux Programming Interface", Julia Evans' "Wizard Zines", and play around with a Linux distro for some starting points Systems Troubleshooting - Linux system administration knowledge helps a lot here. Use Fernando Duran's SadServers.com for some practice. Check out Brendan Gregg's content and know the "USE Method" and the "Linux Performance Analysis in 60000 Milliseconds" articles by heart.
A coding question that was average in difficulty
What is the purpose of tcpdump?
Linux questions, coding and behavioral as well
Coding included a BFS/DFS graph question, some med/hard string question Linux is processes, threads, memory, signals, system calls, etc.
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