Distributed Scheduler - Retrospective
We will analyze the candidate's performance, highlighting where they excelled and where they could have improved. The goal is to provide a clear example of effective communication and problem-solving in a technical interview setting.
1. Defending Trade-Offs
The interview began by focusing on reliability in a distributed job execution system. The interviewer asked the candidate about what should happen to a task after all its retry attempts are exhausted. The candidate proposed marking the task as FAILED and continuing to schedule subsequent runs of the job while acknowledging the trade-offs.