Staff Software Engineer Interview Questions

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The interview process comprised: Phone Chat * 1 technical chat with the hiring manager discussing past experience along with prior experience on system security. * 1 technical coding and system interview. Onsite, there were: 2 rounds of coding, with questions from LeetCode's easy category. 1 system design round. 1 round focusing on Linux OS, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and SQL queries.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Zscaler

3.4
Mar 15, 2024

The interview process comprised: Phone Chat * 1 technical chat with the hiring manager discussing past experience along with prior experience on system security. * 1 technical coding and system interview. Onsite, there were: 2 rounds of coding, with questions from LeetCode's easy category. 1 system design round. 1 round focusing on Linux OS, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and SQL queries.

My previous experience: latest projects, interesting task for me as an engineer, approaches used to resolve technical problems. Professional topics for developers. Common questions about previous projects organization, team work, etc.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Fivetran

3.6
Apr 30, 2020

My previous experience: latest projects, interesting task for me as an engineer, approaches used to resolve technical problems. Professional topics for developers. Common questions about previous projects organization, team work, etc.

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