Persistent Systems Software Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted Dec 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interview round was for about 30 minutes and focused on distributed systems alongside a bit of Go.

I started by getting asked to explain what distributed systems are, and then I got pulled into algorithm-level questions like Raft. They also asked me to compare database choices—whether a distributed database or a more central/centric database fit certain situations—and I was questioned on concepts like sharing/sharding.

After that, the thread shifted into Go fundamentals: why Go, how it achieves concurrency, and what reflection is. There was also a coding problem around strings where I had to check whether something was a palindrome. Before the round ended, I also had to cover Docker and

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