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Interview Experience 5 Ratings
Service Reliability Engineer at Yahoo
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Sunnyvale, CA Mar 2013 – Reviewed May 10, 2013 New
Interview Details – Contract position. First a written screen which took about two hours to complete, but nothing in it was difficult to research and answer if you didn't already know it.
Interview Question – In the second stage a phone interview the following situation was presented: You have 5 Apache web servers sitting behind a load balancer. They are pegged as far as load and are not responding to page requests within agreed to SLAs. Tell me the steps you'd take to debug the problem. View Answer
Negotiation Details – No Negotiation. Contract provider called next working day (Phone interview was on a Friday) and made an offer which I accepted.
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Service Engineer at Yahoo
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Sunnyvale, CA Feb 2012 – Reviewed Jun 6, 2012
Interview Details – The interview was good, the problem was parking was a pain to figure out where the guest parking was. I hate the stupid questions on tech like "if you had this problem, how would you fix it?" Really most of the questions are good for people with less then 10 years of experience but if you been doing it for a long time, you grow tired of the silly questions like "how do you reboot a computer".
Interview Questions
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write a script to be able to expand this regular expression and print out the results
host0[000-100].foo.yahoo.com
should return
host0000.foo.yahoo.com
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host0100.foo.yahoo.com View Answer - if you try to ping or ssh to a host and can not, what do you look for View Answer
Negotiation Details – Told them this is what I want, they said this is what we can pay, and we met i the middle.
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Senior Manager, Service Engineering at Yahoo
No Offer – Interviewed in Santa Clara, CA Aug 2011 – Reviewed May 20, 2012
Interview Details – It was a very lengthy process all compressed in one day.
Interview Question – How do capacity planning for high availability? Answer Question
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Service Engineer at Yahoo
No Offer – Interviewed in Sunnyvale, CA Oct 2009 – Reviewed Mar 22, 2010
Interview Details –
Both were phone interviews they didnot call for onsite after second round. Both interviews lasted 45 mins
First interview was straight forward screening interview . Interviewer just wanted to check if I knew basic tools and basic concepts about debugging. simple questions about what is ACL , If you have a network problem how will you go about debugging it.
Second interview was a bad experience. First of all the interviewer called 45 minutes late saying he forget he had to call me. Then for 10 mins he was wondering what to ask me. Then he picked up a web project I had worked on and started asking silly and random debuggng questions. The questions were so general I really didnot know what he was looking for whether he was looking for any specific tools or names ? The questions didnot seem to test my skills to much extent. The whole interview had a subjective feel to it and I cannot say they rejected me as I gave wrong answers in second interview rather he didnot like my answers.
Interview Questions
- If you have a network problem how will you try to debug it step by step View Answer
- What is ACL View Answer
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Service Engineer at Yahoo
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Dec 5, 2012
Interview Details –
2 phoen screens, one onsite,
difficult phone screens and 4 hour onsite.
Technical completely
Interview Question – All were failrly simple Answer Question
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Service Engineer at Yahoo
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Mar 2008 – Reviewed Jul 11, 2010
Interview Details –
Yahoo! came to our college as the campus hiring process. We had following rounds in the interview:
1. Written test: This was the tricky part, if you answer more Unix/Script related questions interviewer will select you for systems engineering regardless of your answer in Programming side (Probably because not many people will master this).
2. 3 technical discussions: Generic questions, few can be tricky
3. 1 programming round
4. HR Round.
Interview Question – Search for a string in a file with efficiency O(1). (Trick: Ask more about the data being stored). Answer Question
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