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Zeta
Practice questions for the skills this job lists, plus common questions for any interview. These are for practice: we don’t know the employer’s actual questions.
Write a query for the second-highest salary in each department.
SQL
Explain the difference between INNER, LEFT and FULL joins with an example.
SQL
How would you find and fix a slow query in Postgres (EXPLAIN ANALYZE)?
PostgreSQL
What are transaction isolation levels, and which problems does each prevent?
MySQL
Explain Pods, Deployments and Services, and how traffic reaches a Pod.
Kubernetes
How would you debug a Pod stuck in CrashLoopBackOff?
Kubernetes
A server is slow. Which commands do you run first, and what do you look for?
Linux
Explain the CAP theorem with a real example.
Distributed systems
How would you make a payment API idempotent?
Distributed systems
Walk me through a project you built: the design, a hard bug and what you'd change.
This kind of role
Reverse a linked list, then explain its time and space complexity.
This kind of role
How would you design a URL shortener?
This kind of role
What do you know about Zeta's products and customers?
Zeta
Tell me about yourself in two minutes, focused on this role.
About you
Why this company, and why this role?
About you
Tell me about a time you disagreed with a teammate. What happened?
About you
Describe a time you failed or missed a deadline, and what you changed afterwards.
About you