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Top 50 scripting Interview Questions

The most frequently asked scripting questions across all roles and companies, ranked by real interview frequency. Updated daily.

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aggregationStart here. 15 questions · ~375 min
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deduplication6 questions · ~150 min
Parse Logs for Error PatternsMedium
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Parse ERROR log lines, normalize numeric tokens, and aggregate recurring message patterns.

deduplicationaggregationlog parsingMicrosoftJuspay
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log parsing5 questions · ~125 min
Log Parsing for Top IPsEasy
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Parse Autodesk service logs and return the 10 IPs with the most failed requests using a hash map and bounded heap.

log parsingscriptingAutodeskRealSelf
Log Parsing Error ExtractionMedium
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Parse Zscaler logs, filter ERROR entries, and count distinct literal error patterns efficiently.

log parsingpythonscriptingZZScalarCredit Karma
Top 10 Frequent Error CodesMedium
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Count error codes from an Affirm log stream and return the top 10 using a hash map and bounded heap.

log parsingerror handlingscriptingAffirmDatadog
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scripting5 questions · ~125 min
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Coding3 questions · ~75 min
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More topics16 questions · ~400 min
Day-to-Day ScriptingHard
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Rank scripting tasks by urgency using dependency-aware scheduling and a priority queue.

coding challengeclean codecode structureDatadog
Automation Scripting LanguagesMedium
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Parse automation run records and aggregate status, duration, and retryable jobs using string processing and sets.

best practicesbashDevOpsAccenture Federal Services
Parse Directory Structures ScriptMedium
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Recently asked

Parse an absolute Unix path with dot components and return its canonical PWD-style representation using a stack.

bashfunction implementationData StructuresMeta
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