Persistent Systems Cloud Engineer interview experience

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PunePosted Jan 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went in expecting a standard technical loop, but my process leaned heavily toward system-level thinking and cloud/distributed concepts.

Early on, my first technical step was a focused screening where I answered questions about distributed systems and scalability—things like what distributed systems are, the Raft algorithm at a high level, and what makes one type of database better than another in distributed settings. I also got asked about concurrency topics like sharding.

From there, the questions broadened into practical engineering knowledge. I was asked why Go is used and how concurrency works in Go, including what reflection is in that ecosystem. I also had a short coding task where I needed to check if a string was a

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