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      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      Jul 22, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Singapore
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Shopee (Singapore) in Jul 2024

      Interview

      Was not informed that the interview would be conducted in Chinese, but the interviews were patient with me as I had trouble conversing in Chinese. Interview process was straightforward, but I would prefer if it was in English.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      How does a packet travel across devices? Explain in terms of Layer 2 and Layer 3 of the OSI model
      Answer question

      Other Site Reliability Engineer interview reviews for Shopee

      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      Jul 25, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Singapore
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Shopee (Singapore) in Apr 2024

      Interview

      The interviewer was very nice and accomodating. The questions genuinely was not hard but will require explaining your methods. Also it will involve knowledge on Operating Systems, Database (How they operate underneath the hood)

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: Explain to me how in Linux what happens when you open a file.
      Answer question

      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      Feb 17, 2021
      Anonymous employee
      Singapore
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Shopee (Singapore) in Jan 2021

      Interview

      (This position requires Entry Level experience as described on Shopee Careers website) 1 * 60min glider.ai Online Assessment Only one coding question which requires very very basic algorithm knowledge. The rest are all MC questions about networking, OS, Linux and database. 1 * 40min HR conversation: OA result feedback; Guidance of upcoming technical interviews; Q&A 2 * 90min Technical interviews: Process are basically the same for these two interviews: self introduction; questions based on my past experience; low-level questions about networking (TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, SSL), OS (memory, file, IPC, process and thread), Linux (understanding of "top" tool; soft link and hard link), database (few questions) and data structures (few questions); live coding (Google allowed, any language allowed, very very basic algorithm knowledge required); Q&A 1 * 60min Final interview with Team Lead: Mostly high-level questions like my understanding of cloud and virtualization; possible causes of problems if the latency of website is high; how to make the backend system optimized for high concurrency; my future career path and so on. No live coding. All interviews are remotely conducted via Zoom or Skype. Interviewers are friendly. Whole process takes 6-7 weeks.

      Interview questions [7]

      Question 1

      Why the disk space is not freed after deleting a large file?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      What's the difference between process and thread? Do you know coroutine? How it's different from process and thread?
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      Question 3

      How is a database index implemented? What about a composite index?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      How to implement LRU algorithm? Can you think of an algorithm with the complexity of O(1)?
      Answer question

      Question 5

      Can you introduce some of the Linux command line tools which you frequently use?
      Answer question

      Question 6

      In "top" cli, what does the 3 values of "load" mean? How to check the CPU utilization of each core?
      Answer question

      Question 7

      TCP three-way handshake and four-way handshake termination; meaning of TCP states
      Answer question
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