Netskope

Role: Staff Engineer

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: June 2022

Interview Type: Full-Time

Result: Not Specified

Difficulty: Medium to Hard

Rounds: At least 2 rounds

Topics Asked: Project Discussion, System Design, C++, Data Structures (Linked List), Concurrency

Experience:

This interview for a Staff Engineer role took place in June 2022 in Bangalore.

Round 1:

• Discussion about the candidate's projects.
• System design question: "How Amazon handles resiliency?"
• C++ specific question: "How thread callback happens in C++, as we have callback in C."

Round 2:

• Coding question on HackerRank: "Merge 2 sorted linked lists."
• System design/concurrency question: "Write a thread synchronized auto-timeout cache. The timeout thread can prune the entries to save time." The cache should store <key, value> pairs, and every entry should have an automatic timeout.