Troubleshoot Processes That Randomly Crash While Being Created on Linux Cluster Hosts
Company: Tesla
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals
Difficulty: hard
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: Processes scheduled onto a Linux server cluster randomly crash while being created, and the interviewer plays the system while you hunt for a planted cause. It tests Linux troubleshooting commands for processes, memory, network and disk I/O, and reasoning about how cron jobs spawning tens of thousands of threads can break other workloads.
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