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Technical Round: Are you comfortable operating systems? What is the difference between a program and a process? What is a thread? What is the difference between single thread and multi-threading and when are they useful? What is the difference between runtime error and compile-time error? Give examples. Are you comfortable with python? Explain the memory management process in python. Explain python data structures. Explain a few python modules. What is the difference between NumPy and Scipy? Out of NumPy array and list which one occupies less memory? Are you comfortable with the Django framework for python? Explain your project. The project is pretty outdated so why did you choose it?
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System Engineer

Interviewed at TCS

3.6★
Apr 19, 2024

Technical Round: Are you comfortable operating systems? What is the difference between a program and a process? What is a thread? What is the difference between single thread and multi-threading and when are they useful? What is the difference between runtime error and compile-time error? Give examples. Are you comfortable with python? Explain the memory management process in python. Explain python data structures. Explain a few python modules. What is the difference between NumPy and Scipy? Out of NumPy array and list which one occupies less memory? Are you comfortable with the Django framework for python? Explain your project. The project is pretty outdated so why did you choose it?

- a simple coding task (render a certain HTML using given inputs) - two more coding sessions of a similar complexity - designing a control system for a certain real-world task - a deep-dive style interview on how virtualization in Linux kernel works (shadow page tables, etc) At the end of each section, an interviewer took one or two of the infamous Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles and asked to tell them about a situation when I had to apply it.
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Senior System Development Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon Web Services

3.6★
Dec 3, 2022

- a simple coding task (render a certain HTML using given inputs) - two more coding sessions of a similar complexity - designing a control system for a certain real-world task - a deep-dive style interview on how virtualization in Linux kernel works (shadow page tables, etc) At the end of each section, an interviewer took one or two of the infamous Amazon's 14 Leadership Principles and asked to tell them about a situation when I had to apply it.

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