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Phone Screen Coding a Host Log Key-Value Parser

VerkadaSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

Interview question summary: Host Log Parser (key-value pairs) Background and goal Background: host systems and IoT edge devices (such as network cameras, access controllers, gateways, and so on) continuously produce runtime logs. Every log line starts with the timestamp of the event, followed by some key-value pairs joined with an equals sign. Goal: write a Python program that reads a log file an…

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