Panasas Interview Questions
& Process
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and how the experience turned out.
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Panasas
Technical Support Engineer III
Senior Easy Positive experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Technical screen Onsite Panel Group Background check Offer
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
I found Panasas on LinkedIn and after some research, a contact introduced me to the recruiter. I applied and heard back about a delay, about 8 weeks later I got a phone screening which went well. I was told to expect a technical phone interview, but it got escalated to an onsite video conference with the director/manager and engineers. This was a bit novel as they were in Pittsburg and I was in Sunnyvale. I think it went okay, though I had some gaps in experience for their niche, but nothing major. The interview ended with an HR person and an Engineering VP. It seemed to go well, but a few days later I was told they weren't moving forward with my application. I'm not sure why and I'm disappointed, but I'm still connected with the recruiter.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Can you describe a major project you've worked on and detail the technical challenges you faced?
- Please wait here, your interviewer will be with you shortly. (You are sitting in front of a large TV screen).
Panasas
Solutions Engineer
Mid Difficult Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Phone screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding System Design Behavioral
First, there was a phone screen. Then, a round of interviews happened in person at the Sunnyvale HQ. The staff was really friendly. They seemed interested in getting to know me as a person, not just assessing my technical skills.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Can you identify and explain a potential weakness in the provided diagram of the Panasas storage architecture?
- Could you provide a sample shell or Perl script that accomplishes a basic task using regular expressions?
- Show me how you would use benchmark tools, specifically IOR and iozone, from the command line.
Panasas
Program Manager
Mid Average Neutral experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Onsite Panel Presentation
Interview formats
Behavioral Presentation Technical
Got referred by a friend. First, I had a call with the hiring manager, and then we had lunch. After that, an HR rep called me. Then I did a presentation to a panel, and also had one-on-one interviews. The panel was made up of people from different roles in the company.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Could you describe the largest backlog you've managed and estimate the time it would take your team to clear it?
Panasas
QA Engineer
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Phone screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Coding Other
So I had telephonic interviews and then later face to face interviews. They asked about the basics of file system, networking, puzzles, C, python or perl code and data structures.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- Questions about data structures.
- Questions about C coding.
Panasas Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Panasas interview reports.
“Given two files, each with unique integers in a non-sorted way, how would you write a program to determine if they share any numbers?”
Read reports →“Can you implement kernel APIs that other kernel components can use to get high resolution timers?”
Read reports →“Can you identify and explain a potential weakness in the provided diagram of the Panasas storage architecture?”
Read reports →“Could you provide a sample shell or Perl script that accomplishes a basic task using regular expressions?”
Read reports →“Given an application with heavy read operations, how would you approach optimizing its performance?”
Read report →“For an application that performs numerous reads, what strategies would you employ to enhance its performance?”
Read report →“What is the material impact you will have on business growth within one year, and what specific metrics will you use to measure it?”
Read report →“Could you describe the largest backlog you've managed and estimate the time it would take your team to clear it?”
Read report →“Can you describe a major project you've worked on and detail the technical challenges you faced?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 7 Panasas interview reports.