DevOps Engineer · Phone Screen · Multiple Types

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[6][MULTIPLE TYPES]CodingTroubleshooting

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Meta — DevOps Engineer

Level: Unknown Level

Round: Phone Screen · Type: Multiple Types · Difficulty: 6/10 · Duration: 60 min · Interviewer: Unfriendly

Topics: Coding, Troubleshooting

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Interview date: 2026-01-20

Summary

Round 1: Technical Phone

Question: Friend Request (LeetCode 825) and Top N Frequent Words from a file (file not provided, code not runnable).

Details

The coding part consisted of two questions:

A variation of Friend Request (LeetCode 825).
Top N Frequent Words from a file. The file was not provided and the code was not runnable.

I was also asked about troubleshooting a website outage, including deep dives into potential causes like a full disk. The interviewer kept digging deeper into each aspect of the problem.

LeetCode similar: LeetCode 825

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