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Python Palindromes and a Bash find Deep Dive

VoleonSite Reliability Engineer · Technical Screen · Aug 2026

The position is Site Reliability Engineer, so the interview covers Python and Linux. The questions weren't hard, but they really wore me out. Python: given a string, count how many palindrome groups (palindromic substrings) it contains. The correct approach is to scan the string and, from each position, expand outward in both directions. Bash: given a directory, output some deduplicated info abou…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.