Interview Questions

Archna M. - "Caching is a strategy to have the frequently accessed data in the memory to reduce the latency. whenever a client request the data from server, it is first accessed into cache and if not available then it is getting fetched from the storage and stored into cache. As cache is having limited memory, so amount of data can be stored in cache is less. Data will be flushed out from cache based on a criteria which is termed as caching strategy. There could be different mechanisms under which a data can"See full answer

Shar N. - "standard answer for this."See full answer

Esther S. - "Things can get chaotic a lot of times where you're pulled into endless meetings with slack pings, emails, tags from Jira/confluence as well as adhoc asks from leadership team. Based on urgency/severity of tasks at hand, I would have my own board for tracking my tasks and set priorities and due dates. For instance, I would create my own Trello board of things that need to get completed in specific date, block out time in my calendar to work on them (as well as putting reminders on my calendar 3 d"See full answer

Indupriya S. - "This was during a Production VM Migration and the the DB crashed.We had to rollback the migration and after a 22 hour migration window present to the customer. At that point, I did not have answers to the WHY very clearly but had to present to the customer. I walked them through the situation and what had happened when the customer responded that they knew what happened but would like to know the why if we are asking for another migration window. I had to walk out of the meeting but on the hind"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question. Let's go over one possible solution: > Sure, there are three reasons why Amazon decided to start with books first. Creating niche > The first and most obvious reason is that Amazon wanted to create a niche market for their products at first. By creating a niche in the book space, Amazo"See full answer

Praniti S. - "questions cannot be mentioned due to NDA but be passionate about your role with PlayStation."See full answer