The interview began immediately with technical questioning without a preliminary recruiter screening.
The interviewer prioritized deep knowledge of OS fundamentals over general algorithmic problem solving.
The candidate successfully utilized a doubly linked list with boundary tags to implement a memory allocator, demonstrating proficiency in low-level data structure management.
Questions Asked
Explain memory management, virtual vs physical addresses, page tables, and TLB.
Operating Systems
Implement a memory allocator with alloc, free, and coalescing of adjacent free blocks.
