Happened a year ago so don’t remember all the questions, however they ask about your work history and motivations for applying
Systems Software Engineer Interview Questions
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Describe a situation when you had a different opinion in a team.
What part of the software development lifecycle are most familiar with?
What excites you about the opportunity for a career at Canonical? In what areas have you focused on success in your studies and career? What in your journey has led to you now pursuing a career at Canonical? At high school or university, what did you achieve that you would consider exceptional? What are your strengths as a software engineer? Describe your level of skill with your best programming language and how you've achieved that. Describe your level of skill working with Linux as a developer, and as an administrator, and how you've attained that. Which Canonical products and services would you most like to work on? How do you ensure quality in the software you write or maintain? Can you describe steps that you have taken to excel at quality? What experience do you have using or contributing to open source?
Tell me about a technical challenge you faced in your last position, and how did you handle it?
Given a matrix of integers and a starting point, find all adjacent neighbors with same value, and repeat process with each identified neighbor.
questions were mostly based on database design, big data, cloud computing etc.
What types of thread protection exist besides critical section, mutex and semaphore?
Nothing was unexpected.
your major learnings in life
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