Linux Software Engineer Interview Questions

Linux Kernel Engineering

Interviewed at Google

4.4★

11 Mar 2009

You have 25 horses, what is the minimum number of races you can find the top 3. In one race you can race 5 horses, and you don't have a timer.

Linux Systems Administrator II

Interviewed at Rackspace Technology

3.5★

28 Jul 2011

When does DNS use TCP instead of UDP

Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Rackspace Technology

3.5★

18 Mar 2013

Why do you want to switch from your current job to a customer support role?

Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at IBM

3.9★

1 Jun 2017

what is third field in /etc/shadow file?

Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at Rackspace Technology

3.5★

20 Mar 2012

"What are your favorite command to use at the linux command line"

Linux Systems Administrator I

Interviewed at HostGator.com

3.5★

17 Apr 2012

How do you control processes on a Linux server?

Linux Systems Administrator

Interviewed at GE

4.1★

27 Dec 2013

Write perl code to find the number of lines in a file

Linux Kernel Software Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★

2 Jun 2020

Print last n nodes of a linked list you only have pointer to Head

Linux Kernel Engineer

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.8★

5 Jun 2009

Write a shortest string copy function.

Linux Systems Administrator II

Interviewed at Rackspace Technology

3.5★

28 Apr 2010

Define the difference between a hub and a switch