Google Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions
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Site Reliability Engineer · L3
- 01
Write a program to find duplicate entries in a file.
Coding & Algorithms · Easy
- 02
Explain inode structure and components; describe Linux networking and performance monitoring commands and their uses.
Domain Knowledge · Medium
- 03
Implement a solution for a real-time problem involving dictionary operations while avoiding a specific module or library.
Coding & Algorithms · Hard
Site Reliability Engineer · L4
- 01
Calculate the average of the last n elements in a data stream with a user-facing interface.
Coding & Algorithms · Medium
- 02
Modify stream average calculation to exclude the highest values.
Coding & Algorithms · Medium
- 03
Find the longest increasing subsequence where each element increases by at most 1 from the previous.
Coding & Algorithms · Medium
Site Reliability Engineer · L4
- 01
Determine if a string contains all characters from a given alphabet in sequential order.
Coding & Algorithms · Medium
- 02
Find the shortest substring containing all alphabet characters in sequential order.
Coding & Algorithms · Medium
- 03
Given containers filled in FIFO order but stored in LIFO fashion, determine the sequence in which items are unloaded.
Coding & Algorithms · Medium
Most-asked Google Site Reliability Engineer questions
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More reported questions
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Calculate minimum time for a car to travel from top-left to bottom-right of a grid with traffic lights, moving only down or right.
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Calculate the average of the last n elements in a data stream with a user-facing interface.
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Count strings with approximate prefix matches allowing up to k character differences.
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Count the number of strings matching a given prefix in a sorted array.
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Describe an experience collaborating in a diverse team, explain the benefits of diversity, how you achieve consensus on decisions, and how you handle conflicts.
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Describe the features and differences of terminal multiplexers (screen and tmux) and explain network diagnostic tools (traceroute, nslookup, SSH, bg/fg commands).
asked in 1 reports - 07
Design a mapping service supporting 100 million daily active users with satellite and aerial photography.
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Design a system to persist and restore keyboard layouts.
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Determine if a string contains all characters from a given alphabet in sequential order.
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Determine unload sequence for containers when adjacent items can be swapped.
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Diagnose and resolve infrastructure architecture problems by analyzing performance, I/O, memory, storage, load balancing, CDN, firewall, and security factors.
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Efficiently count prefix matches in an unsorted array optimized for multiple queries.
asked in 1 reports - 13
Explain inode structure and components; describe Linux networking and performance monitoring commands and their uses.
asked in 1 reports - 14
Find the longest increasing subsequence where each element increases by at most 1 from the previous.
asked in 1 reports - 15
Find the longest increasing subsequence where each element increases by at most k from the previous.
asked in 1 reports - 16
Find the shortest path in a graph, read the input, and process the output correctly.
asked in 1 reports - 17
Find the shortest substring containing all alphabet characters in sequential order.
asked in 1 reports - 18
Given containers filled in FIFO order but stored in LIFO fashion, determine the sequence in which items are unloaded.
asked in 1 reports - 19
Implement a solution for a real-time problem involving dictionary operations while avoiding a specific module or library.
asked in 1 reports