Systems Engineering Coding and Problem Solving Questions

Practical coding and algorithmic skills applied to systems and infrastructure tasks. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to write syntactically correct and maintainable code or scripts to automate operations, parse logs, collect metrics, implement health checks, and perform diagnostics; choose appropriate simple data structures and algorithms; reason about time and space complexity at a practical level; apply defensive programming and error handling; debug effectively and write tests to validate behavior; and solve timed technical problems by prioritizing core functionality, correctness, and maintainability. Interviewers commonly use small coding exercises, scripting tasks, or live problems that emphasize operational automation and system oriented problem solving.