Senior Linux Engineer Interview Questions

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Q: They give you a mathematics, and generic scientific quiz that is not related to your job role at all. You don't get to talk to people who are making decisions until you go thru this. If your a high level engineering talent don't bother they are wasting your time with silly and ridiculous questions.
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Senior Linux Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Datto

3.5
Nov 28, 2018

Q: They give you a mathematics, and generic scientific quiz that is not related to your job role at all. You don't get to talk to people who are making decisions until you go thru this. If your a high level engineering talent don't bother they are wasting your time with silly and ridiculous questions.

If a user had an issue with logging into a linux machine how would you go about troubleshooting the issue? If you had someone not able to see or use a specific file what troubleshooting steps would you take to find the issue? Provide some examples of how you can manage PCI and other compliance checks in vulnerability management for an image?
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Senior Linux Engineer

Interviewed at AAA Mountain West Group (MWG)

3.7
Feb 10, 2023

If a user had an issue with logging into a linux machine how would you go about troubleshooting the issue? If you had someone not able to see or use a specific file what troubleshooting steps would you take to find the issue? Provide some examples of how you can manage PCI and other compliance checks in vulnerability management for an image?

Describe the linux boot process What's the difference between UDP and TCP Can either multicast? explain How do you allocate memory on the heap in C? How do you redirect standard error output to standard output in bash?
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Software Engineer Senior - Linux Engineering

Interviewed at Canonical

3.2
Jun 2, 2022

Describe the linux boot process What's the difference between UDP and TCP Can either multicast? explain How do you allocate memory on the heap in C? How do you redirect standard error output to standard output in bash?

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