Interview Experience 23

##Offline MCQ Round:

Questions were mostly on networking with a few exception. Some of covered topics were:

• IPv6
• Spolling
• conversion of in order to pre order
• Queue
• Sticky Bits

##Online Coding round

Best explained here: http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/directi-interview-set-11-on-campus/

##Interview Round 1:

My interviewer was GSoC mentor at KDE, so most of the questions were related to my GSoC project. He asked what was I currently working on and then asked me to explain it in detail. I had mentioned on my CV that I have used elasticsearch, a lot of questions were based on that.

For ex:

• Why did you use elasticseach for (features implemented)?
• What is difference between nosql and sql?
• Why is elasticsearch faster than other well known RDBMS?
• What are the use cases for nosql?

Lastly, he asked why did I have relatively low CGPA (8.13). I explained that I used the time to work on opensource projects and 8 is not bad. He seemed to agree.

##Interview Round 2: Again, I was able to answer most the questions asked with my experience of working under GSoC.

Questions asked included:

• What is the hardware stack of rubygems.org?
• What kind of things we monitor?
• How does our continuous deployment works?
• Given a bare metal hardware what would be my steps of deploying an application?
• What are different kinds of file systems? How are they different from each other?
• What would the process of mounting a secondary storage device remotely?
• Explain boot process.
• What is difference between process and thread and why it is important to know the difference?