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      Platform Engineer Interview

      Jul 22, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at GSK

      Interview

      Standard behavioral phone screening with recruiter. Online coding assessment going over Git, Docker, Python, and SQL. Had a 1-1 interview with Engineering Manager that involved experience and previous projects overview, and brief coding exercise. Final round involved three 45 minute interview with various people from the team (two SWE, one director of the team). I believe the final round was gauging how you think through an unfamiliar algorithm and how you think

      Interview questions [8]

      Question 1

      (Online assessment) Migrate changes from master branch to a new working branch using Git
      Answer question

      Question 2

      (Online assessment) Get data from API request, sort data by some criteria using Python
      Answer question

      Question 3

      (Online assessment) Write a Dockerfile to containerize some application by some criteria (must be Ubuntu, move directories, etc)
      Answer question

      Question 4

      (Online assessment) Write a SQL query using GROUP BY, INNER JOIN, and SORT BY
      Answer question

      Question 5

      (Engineering Manager interview) Implement a Queue data structure using Doubly Linked List in Python
      Answer question

      Question 6

      (Final round interview) Slight variation of Alternating Characters on Hackerrank
      1 Answer

      Question 7

      (Final round interview) Write a Python function that computes the check sum of a file. Then, modify the function such that we compute the check sum of a file every k bytes. I was allowed to refer to documentation for this exercise
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      Question 8

      (Final round interview) No coding here, just overview of my projects as well as typical behavioral questions (how do you operate with concurrent tasks, how do you get up to speed with the team, etc)
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