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I looked over the Linux questions, and they were pretty bad:

Q.1: What is the core of Linux Operating System? Shell

Kernel

Command

Script

Terminal

I mean... If they asked me about that at an interview, that'd be a huge red flag. I wouldn't consider this list when studying for interviews... It is sad for me how many stars and forks this list has. Hopefully, it's much better for other languages/topics.

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kraftman|7 years ago

Is it supposed to be a list of good questions you should ask, or crap questions you should prepare to get asked?

jcranmer|7 years ago

The repository name is "awesome-interview-questions". So far, of the 3 lists I've looked at, [1] was a page where someone apparently deleted random swathes of text in the middle of the content and utterly unusable as a result, and [2] and [3] were both full of grammatically poor questions that ask about minutiae of C++, get it wrong, and don't realize that C++11 exists.

I think it's supposed to be a list of good questions to ask, but it's actually a compilation of lists that people sent the author with very little to no curation actually done.

[1] http://placement.freshersworld.com/power-preparation/technic...

[2] https://pangara.com/blog/cplusplus-interview-questions

[3] http://a4academics.com/interview-questions/57-c-plus-plus/41...

Edit: Just opened up a Java list for #4... and it said that LinkedList was usually better performance over ArrayList. That is not correct; ArrayList is usually better (because of cache locality). So I'm now 4 for 4 on bad lists out of this site.

bardan|7 years ago

I'm furrowing my brow at this one:

"A file is unable to be restored from tape due to several device and media errors. What is most likely the cause?

Media errors usually indicate that the tape media is damaged, or that the tape drive heads need cleaning."

I've read a few of the questions from other categories and I really can't say any of them have been "awesome".

orev|7 years ago

You’d be amazed at how many people apply for jobs and lie on their resumes. Sometimes you need some canary questions to weed those people out. They only seem stupid to you because you know the answers.