Scheduling
All interview questions related to Scheduling
What does the cron expression "0 2 * * 1-5" mean, and how would you test a cron job locally?
Design a judge/sandbox to safely compile and run untrusted code in multiple languages with resource limits and scaling.
Design a reliable, horizontally scalable scheduler (distributed cron) that supports one-off and recurring jobs with retries and idempotency.
A pod has been stuck in Pending state for over 15 minutes. Walk me through how you would troubleshoot and resolve this issue.
Nightly maintenance jobs overlap and create resource contention and backlog. Explain your triage and prevention.
Describe a time you managed a project involving cross-timezone teams. How did you handle scheduling, collaboration, and communication?