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How would you triage and go about fixing infrastructure problems? Giving an input file, get the number of lines matching a specific piece of text using bash scripting. Give the percentage of lines in the file that match that string.
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Systems Engineer/Python Developer

Interviewed at Hudson River Trading

4.2
Jun 25, 2015

How would you triage and go about fixing infrastructure problems? Giving an input file, get the number of lines matching a specific piece of text using bash scripting. Give the percentage of lines in the file that match that string.

Given a database, where we know some portion of data (e.g. say 20%) is accessed more than the other portion of the database by the client. We have a frontend that client requests data from. Design a data structure that will increase the efficiency of access of objects. And we know that we can only hold on to n elements in memory.
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Aug 2, 2014

Given a database, where we know some portion of data (e.g. say 20%) is accessed more than the other portion of the database by the client. We have a frontend that client requests data from. Design a data structure that will increase the efficiency of access of objects. And we know that we can only hold on to n elements in memory.

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