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Site Engineer Interview Questions

"The interview for a position as a site engineer will consist of questions about your technical knowledge of civil engineering and construction, experience with supervising different types of sites, and your attention to detail. Employers will want you to have a degree in engineering or a construction-related discipline."

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1. What happens when you type: www.google.com : the expected answer is : what happens at each OSI network layer down to packet levels, different protocols used. 2. TCP/IP handshake 3. How does SSL/TLS encryption work 4. Symmetric vs Asymmetric key 5. How to debug a network issue if a host is unreachable, commands you will use. 6. Debug an environment with high load average: mention the tools you will use, what metric you will look into 7. Explain metrics in vmstat. 8. Simple python scripting to parse a log file and find out average of a particular column. Concentrate on regex patterns to parse the log file.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Withings

3.5
Aug 14, 2020

1. What happens when you type: www.google.com : the expected answer is : what happens at each OSI network layer down to packet levels, different protocols used. 2. TCP/IP handshake 3. How does SSL/TLS encryption work 4. Symmetric vs Asymmetric key 5. How to debug a network issue if a host is unreachable, commands you will use. 6. Debug an environment with high load average: mention the tools you will use, what metric you will look into 7. Explain metrics in vmstat. 8. Simple python scripting to parse a log file and find out average of a particular column. Concentrate on regex patterns to parse the log file.

Level of experience with: - Configuration Management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation) - AWS and cloud in general - Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms - Observability tools (strangely, that garnered the least curiosity or questions)
Sep 29, 2021

Level of experience with: - Configuration Management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, CloudFormation) - AWS and cloud in general - Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms - Observability tools (strangely, that garnered the least curiosity or questions)

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