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Also many interviews are structured so there simply won't be time to finish the exercise if you're going slow.

• ilc 3y ago
  In coding interviews, that's very true. In this interview I wasn't concerned about that. If you are looking to see if someone understands Linux by testing diagnostic skill, if they are coming up with 3-4 different failures to check for every step... They are doing their job.
  • yencabulator 3y ago
    Higher diagnostic skill would be checking the highest-likelihood scenario (that the interviewer had created) first.
    • ilc 3y ago
      No... that's just listening to someone tipping you an answer. Which if you are doing real diagnostics is often 100% the wrong answer. I double check other people's work, and make sure that everything is right. Because one small misstep can result in not diagnosing an issue correctly. Listen to what the user reports as the issue.... not the cause. Always work from the symptoms to the problem.