Linux Software Engineer Interview Questions

Linux Production Support Engineer

Interviewed at Capital One

3.7★

Mar 25, 2016

Tell me about a time when you had to step outside of your role to solve an important problem, how did you do it and what was the result?

Linux Kernel Engineering

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

Mar 11, 2009

You have 25 horses, what is the minimum number of races you can find the top 3. In one race you can race 5 horses, and you don't have a timer.

Linux Systems Administrator II

Interviewed at Rackspace Technology

3.6★

Jul 28, 2011

When does DNS use TCP instead of UDP

Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Rackspace Technology

3.6★

Mar 18, 2013

Why do you want to switch from your current job to a customer support role?

Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at IBM

3.9★

Jun 1, 2017

what is third field in /etc/shadow file?

Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Rackspace Technology

3.6★

Mar 20, 2012

"What are your favorite command to use at the linux command line"

Linux Kernel Engineer

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.9★

Jun 5, 2009

Write a shortest string copy function.

Linux Systems Administrator I

Interviewed at HostGator.com

3.6★

Apr 17, 2012

How do you control processes on a Linux server?

Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at GE

4.1★

Dec 27, 2013

Write perl code to find the number of lines in a file

Linux Kernel Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.6★

Jun 2, 2020

Print last n nodes of a linked list you only have pointer to Head