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      IOS Software Developer Interview

      3 Jul 2014
      Anonymous interview candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Handshake (New York, NY) in Jul 2014

      Interview

      Did a phone screen and was invited on site for an initial in-person interview. I thought I was interviewing for an iOS Developer position but was asked a bunch of UNIX/LINUX kernel system type of questions such as memory management, processor kernel algorithms, BASH, pipes, etc. The interviewer admitted that he knew nothing about iOS development nonetheless he asked fairly technical UNIX questions anyway. I was surprised at the questions as my resume did not indicate advanced knowledge of UNIX/LINUX but attempted to dredge memories of my Operating Systems college class out during the interview.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      What is the difference between a semaphore and a mutex?
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      Question 2

      What is a pipe and how does the shell along with the kernel manage to get them to work?
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      Question 3

      How do file descriptors work in LINUX?
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      Question 4

      How do processes get created in LINUX?
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      Question 5

      How does one debug race conditions?
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