Questions about work history, leadership styles, and basic technical review.
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First interview was a question on how to solve a supply chain scheduling issue using a prediction model.
Systems design task: a very general "Build me an <X>", where X is a known high load, highly available system. A very typical question pretty much everywhere today.
DS & CS basics, tell me a time when... NDA
Can't give full detail (NDA) but expect lots of "tell me about a time you ... ", based on the Amazon leadership principles. For system design, expect to be asked about any one of many current highly available, highly scalable platforms, and how to implement key features of those.
Describe a situation where you had to make a significant commitment on the spot.
Basically a personality interview. Questions were not technical in any nature. All about my character, experience, and my overall employment history.
Job experience questions mostly. Know what you have done, be specific. For coding - know the basics and practice the most common questions out there. No brain teasers.
Questions were based on solving the problems the team faces; but abstracted a bit to make it more generic. Some questions on writing a simple program and also data structures.
Describe the infrastructure Twitter uses for scale. What is the design you are most proud of? What metrics would you use to determine if the service was "good enough"? Describe front-end, back-end, and user metrics.
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