Twitter / X
Real-time social platform with petabyte-scale data and ML ranking systems.
4 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
How would you design a highly available, multi-region Kubernetes cluster architecture to host X's core microservices?
#Kubernetes
#High Availability
#Multi-region
#Service Mesh
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Architect a disaster recovery plan for X's core authentication service. How do you ensure RTO (Recovery Time Objective) is under 1 minute and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) is zero?
#Disaster Recovery
#High Availability
#Databases
#Failover
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How does Kubernetes handle network partitions between nodes? Explain the split-brain scenario and how etcd consensus prevents it.
#Kubernetes
#Distributed Systems
#etcd
#Consensus Algorithms
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