Google Interview Questions

• Some web sites have text in multiple languages. How could you determine the dominant language of a web page when indexing it?

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• Given a piece of html, write a program to extract the URL within an anchor tag

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• How are meta tags coded

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• Why do software fails some times. i.e. Firefox might not work some time on the system

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• The software program is not meeting expectations in terms of timescales or functionality. What steps would you take to bring the program back into line

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• What's your favorite programming language? Why?

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• Hardest things to unit test

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• Describe Linux from its kernel level

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• What is Unix multi-threading programming and how to trouble-shooting

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• Explain scheduling in OS

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• What is an RTOS? How different is it from a conventional OS

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• What is an orphaned process

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• On a Linux file system, what is the difference between hard links and soft links

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• How to search files quickly and how to distinguish the files with same contents but different names

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• How to organize the files efficiently in file system

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