Twitter / X
Real-time social platform with petabyte-scale data and ML ranking systems.
4 Rounds
~14 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python script to parse a 50GB Nginx access log file and output the top 10 IP addresses making requests. Optimize for memory usage.
#Python
#Log Parsing
#Memory Management
#Data Structures
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a Bash one-liner or short script to find and gracefully terminate all zombie processes on a Linux machine.
#Bash
#Linux
#Process Management
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a script in Python or Bash to parse a massive Nginx access log file, extract all IP addresses, and return the top 10 IPs that encountered 5xx HTTP status codes.
#Bash
#Python
#Log Parsing
#Regex
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a script to recursively find and delete files older than 30 days in a given directory, but keep files with a '.log' extension.
#Bash
#Linux
#File Management
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a script to query a Prometheus HTTP API endpoint and trigger a Slack webhook alert if CPU usage across a cluster exceeds 90% for 5 consecutive minutes.
#Python
#Prometheus
#API Integration
#Alerting
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Bash script to monitor disk usage. If any partition exceeds 85%, the script should find the top 5 largest directories in that partition and email the report.
#Bash
#Linux
#Monitoring
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