- general
- education history
- work history
- interests
- english
- software engineering
- scm: svn / git / hg
- tests
- web
- data stores
- sql: postgres
- redis
- cassandra
- graph databases
- networking
- ssh, certificates
- nginx
- load balancers
- Ask the interviewee to pick an algorithm THAT THE INTERVIEWER HAS USED and discuss it.
- What is the time complexity? When did they use it? What would be an alternative if any?
- Pick a problem, either one of your own or from project euler or atoi and have the interviewee code it
- See if they volunteer to test their code
- Ask them to test the problem with good and bad data
- Can he show you any of of the applications that he has worked on and explain them?
- Is he passionate about programming?
- Does he seem to be a fast learner? Will he be OK with doing things the Inaka way (ex. git, pivotal)?
- Does he understand the service business? Does he like working with clients?
- How is his overall attitude? Is he easy to talk to you? Does his personality fit with the Inaka team?
- Is his English at least intermediate?
- Talk about his experiences in programming so far. What does he like? Not like?
- Can he show you any of the apps that he developed? Can he explain the process? The challenges?
- Why is he looking for a new job?
- Do you see him being able to work independently on projects?
- Can he talk comfortably and with technical expertise about his past and current projects?
- What was your first job?
- Have you ever met anyone famous?
- What are you reading right now?
- If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?
- Who’s someone you really admire?
- Seen any good movies lately you’d recommend?
- Got any favorite quotes?
- Been pleasantly surprised by anything lately?
- What was your favorite band 10 years ago?
- What’s your earliest memory?
- Been anywhere recently for the first time?
- What’s your favorite family tradition?
- Who had the most influence on you growing up?
- What was the first thing you bought with your own money?
- What’s something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?
- Seen anything lately that made you smile?
- What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?
- Have you had your 15 minutes of fame yet?
- What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?
- How do you like your eggs?
- Do you have a favorite charity you wish more people knew about?
- Got any phobias you’d like to break?
- Have you returned anything you’ve purchased recently? Why?
- Do you collect anything?
- What’s your favorite breakfast cereal?
- Do you use source control?
- Can you make a build in one step?
- Do you make daily builds?
- Do you have a bug database?
- Do you fix bugs before writing new code?
- Do you have an up-to-date schedule?
- Do you have a spec?
- Do programmers have quiet working conditions?
- Do you use the best tools money can buy?
- Do you have testers?
- Do new candidates write code during their interview?
- Do you do hallway usability testing?
- Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?
- Tell me about an important issue you encountered recently.
- What are you expecting from this firm in the future?
- Tell about a time that you had to adapt to a difficult situation.
- What is your greatest achievement outside of work?
- A team experience you found disappointing.
- Do you work well under pressure?
- Do you think you are overqualified for this position?
- Have you ever had to deal with conflicting deadlines?
- Do you prefer to work independently or on a team?
- How would you describe the experience of working here?
- How do you react to instruction and criticism?
- What are your expectations regarding promotions and salary increases?
- What techniques and tools do you use to keep yourself organized?
- What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?
- What problems have you encountered at work?
- Give me an example that best describes your organizational skills.
- What negative thing would your last boss say about you?
- Where do you see yourself in five years time?
- How did you react when faced with constant time pressure?
- What do you think, would you be willing to travel for work?
- What attracted you to this company?
- You have not done this sort of job before. How will you succeed?
- What would make you happy in a job?
- What relevant experience do you have?
- Do you have the qualities and skills necessary to succeed in your career?
- Describe a time you were faced with stresses which tested your skills.
- What type of work environment do you prefer?
- What is a typical career path in this job function?
- What's most important to you in a new position?
- Your greatest weakness in school or at work?
- Tell me about your strengths.
- Tell us about the last time you had to negotiate with someone.
- List five words that describe your character.
- What do you believe are your key strengths?
- Tell me about how you worked effectively under pressure.
- How do you keep track of things you need to do?
- What kinds of situations do you find most stressful?
- What kind of events cause you stress on the job?- What have you learned from mistakes on the job?
- Explain the life of an http request.
- What does the FLP result teach us?
- What is a byzantine failure?
- Explain CRDTs
- Explain linearizability.
- How does DNS work?
- Crash-stop vs crash-recovery?
- Difference between soft and hard real time
- Model GC in an eventually consistent system
- Discuss clock skew, NTP, and AWS vs metal
- What is causal consistency?
- Whats the difference between a vector clock and a version vector?
- What is chain replication?
- At-most v at-least once
- Model RYOW in an EC system.
- Why does fail-stop rely on perfect fault detection?
- How is this flawed?
- How does 2PC fail?
- How does 3PC fail?
- Why can Raft survive byzantine failures?
- Why CANT Raft survive byzantine failures?
- How is 2PC different from fast-consensus?
- What do merkel trees accomplish?
- How do replicated logs work?
- Discuss an EC system that implement idempotent increments and decrements of counters
- Why are timeouts common in RPC?
- Push vs poll for stats and why?
- Advantages and limitations of the actor model?
- What is process calculus?
- What does termination, agreement, and validity guarantee in consensus protocols, respectfully?
- Which systems are best optimized for safety? 31) liveness?
- What are the characteristic differences among the two?
- Why is WAN replication difficult?
- Which programming languages are best suited for building concurrent systems? why?
- Have you ever been to a RICON?
- Watched the videos?
- What are 3 fundamental diffs between Cassandra and Riak?
- How can you reduce tail latencies in distributed systems?
- Why do they matter?
- Explain set union vs set intersection
- In your opinion why arent there any decent distributed time series databases on the market?
- How can you break paxos?
- Why is a total order reflexive?
- What are the fundamentals of atomic broadcast?
- What does a POSET guarantee?
- What is TCP incast?
- Compare and contrast Kafka, Storm, and Spark
- Are you familiar with LASP?
- Difficulties of programming concurrent systems in shared memory env?
- Do you know how vector clocks work?