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People that cannot demonstrate a working knowledge of Linux system internals never pass interviews with me. I tend to catch the CS bootcamp types cold because
by lrvick 4y ago
People that cannot demonstrate a working knowledge of Linux system internals never pass interviews with me.
I tend to catch the CS bootcamp types cold because I only ask real world practical debugging questions that select for experience.
- okdood64 4y agoGoogle's SRE interview, the SA track one, have a 45-min interview solely focused on Linux system internals. (In addition to standard LeetCode, networking & troubleshooting components.) A few other larger companies do this as well for SRE interviews.
- intelVISA 4y agoAs it should be. I'd be very wary of company that didn't...
- satvikpendem 4y agoFor what role? I wouldn't for example expect that for a full stack role, but I would for something like DevOps or SRE.
- lrvick 4y agoAny full stack engineer should have a working knowledge of the system they are writing code for, or they will end up making massive security mistakes.