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You get given a diagram of a house, a few points where a dish can be installed. Some hazzards that could affect your job & a list of satalite specifications (what the rules are about applying the satalite). You then have decidebwhere tonput the dish, trail the wire and why. Then the assessor plays the role pf the customer , you haveto explain why you want to put it & how to get rid of the hazards
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Interviewed at Sky

3.5
Feb 19, 2017

You get given a diagram of a house, a few points where a dish can be installed. Some hazzards that could affect your job & a list of satalite specifications (what the rules are about applying the satalite). You then have decidebwhere tonput the dish, trail the wire and why. Then the assessor plays the role pf the customer , you haveto explain why you want to put it & how to get rid of the hazards

Interview was very technical, ranging from easy questions such as how to get the return code for a command ($?), how to find out swapping usage, how to troubleshoot an slow web site( cluster of 400 hosts) to how to troubleshoot one specific ads not showing on the web site. Questions about scripting, such as how parallelize a curl to different hosts. How to implement monitoring (either passive or active and why). Explain SSL handshake. Implement manually a log rotation. Troubleshoot machine rebooting very often. Unix internals: concept of stack,heap. Describe in detail your biggest accomplishments.
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Service Engineer

Interviewed at Yahoo

4
Sep 21, 2014

Interview was very technical, ranging from easy questions such as how to get the return code for a command ($?), how to find out swapping usage, how to troubleshoot an slow web site( cluster of 400 hosts) to how to troubleshoot one specific ads not showing on the web site. Questions about scripting, such as how parallelize a curl to different hosts. How to implement monitoring (either passive or active and why). Explain SSL handshake. Implement manually a log rotation. Troubleshoot machine rebooting very often. Unix internals: concept of stack,heap. Describe in detail your biggest accomplishments.

Can you get onsite since you been there before, we keep running into many people who are banned. Or the management hate them and do not want them in there area. after my answer are you sure whats your number again. whats your number again, whats your number again. You sure this is your number. ok we will check,
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Field Service Engineer

Interviewed at SCREEN SPE

3.3
Oct 30, 2015

Can you get onsite since you been there before, we keep running into many people who are banned. Or the management hate them and do not want them in there area. after my answer are you sure whats your number again. whats your number again, whats your number again. You sure this is your number. ok we will check,

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