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      Principal Engineer Interview

      21 Mar 2019
      Anonymous employee
      Bengaluru
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at WD (Bengaluru)

      Interview

      Was contacted by HR. There were 2 telephonic interviews with senior engineers from San Jose, they were excellent interviews, the interviewers were very polite. The first interview was an in-depth discussion about synchronization mechanisms for threads. In particular, we discussed two problems: (i) the lost wakeup problem and how associating a mutex with a condition variable solved it. (ii) the thundering herd problem. The second one was more to do with storage and file systems. In particular, we discussed snapshot implementations. There were also about 4 in-person interviews in Bangalore. These were the usual technical interviews, nothing to write home about - except for one in which the interviewer was more interested in C programming puzzles.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      You are given read-only access to all the modifying I/Os that target a block device, as they happen. Use this to implement point-in-time snapshots for the block device. The snapshots do not live on the block device. You are not allowed to modify the contents of the block device. Assume you are in user space. Feel free to assume access to anything else that you might need for your implementation; please do call your assumptions explicitly.
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