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Last round was about operations. Interviewer was an operations engineer and we discussed a lot of high level design and how to run live production systems with no downtime. We talked about some distributed systems problems, rolling out code to production, monitoring etc.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Apr 20, 2016

Last round was about operations. Interviewer was an operations engineer and we discussed a lot of high level design and how to run live production systems with no downtime. We talked about some distributed systems problems, rolling out code to production, monitoring etc.

Walk through a directory-like structure, outputting the names of folders and files. Each folder/file should be indented to the left according to its level from the root, and also should have the number of files it contains overall beneath it. E.g.: ------ docs(3) -marketing(3) --october(2) ---file.doc ---invoice.doc --november(1) ---new_invoice.doc -publications(0) screens(1) -screen1.png ------
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Dec 31, 2019

Walk through a directory-like structure, outputting the names of folders and files. Each folder/file should be indented to the left according to its level from the root, and also should have the number of files it contains overall beneath it. E.g.: ------ docs(3) -marketing(3) --october(2) ---file.doc ---invoice.doc --november(1) ---new_invoice.doc -publications(0) screens(1) -screen1.png ------

Design a system that is able to process N types of jobs - i.e. job of types A, B, C, etc. The pipelines of jobs per type should be independent, i.e. a long-running job A should block only the queue of jobs A, but not block the queue of jobs B. And the results from each type of job queues should be delivered in the order of input.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Dec 31, 2019

Design a system that is able to process N types of jobs - i.e. job of types A, B, C, etc. The pipelines of jobs per type should be independent, i.e. a long-running job A should block only the queue of jobs A, but not block the queue of jobs B. And the results from each type of job queues should be delivered in the order of input.

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