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Round 3: 1. Design a job scheduler. 2. Job scheduler must schedule jobs at one place but respective services must execute the jobs. 3. Job scheduler must track the status of ongoing jobs across multiple services. 4. Job scheduler must show logs but not show logs of what happened to the jobs. 5. Job scheduler must show when other services started processing the job and completed processing the jobs and manage retries in case of exceptions. 6. Other services can take hours to execute the jobs, hence job scheduler must not be blocked but still be able to manage the overview of each job. 7. States of each job must be available as a holistic view in scheduler itself.
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Lead Software Developer

Interviewed at Headout

4.2
Feb 8, 2024

Round 3: 1. Design a job scheduler. 2. Job scheduler must schedule jobs at one place but respective services must execute the jobs. 3. Job scheduler must track the status of ongoing jobs across multiple services. 4. Job scheduler must show logs but not show logs of what happened to the jobs. 5. Job scheduler must show when other services started processing the job and completed processing the jobs and manage retries in case of exceptions. 6. Other services can take hours to execute the jobs, hence job scheduler must not be blocked but still be able to manage the overview of each job. 7. States of each job must be available as a holistic view in scheduler itself.

The discussion began without any formal greeting and directly asked me to introduce myself. For a senior-level discussion, a courteous opening is a basic expectation and strongly reflects on the company’s professionalism.
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Senior Software Engineer/Lead Solution Architect

Interviewed at Skybridge Infotech

4.4
Sep 17, 2025

The discussion began without any formal greeting and directly asked me to introduce myself. For a senior-level discussion, a courteous opening is a basic expectation and strongly reflects on the company’s professionalism.

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