#fleet management

5 fleet management interview questions, asked at CoreWeave, Microsoft, Waymo. Last asked Oct 2026.

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Design a strongly consistent store for fleet validation resultsSystem designTwo internal services share a database: one validates the operating system on every machine in a large fleet and writes the outcome per machine, and the other reads those outcomes…
Last asked Oct 2026
Design a lab machine fleet monitor with remote rebootSystem designDesign a service that watches a fleet of lab machines running compute workloads. Each machine polls the service for work; a work item names a payload the machine must download…
Last asked Sep 2026
Design a fleet system that collects mapping dataSystem designDesign the system behind a fleet of sensor-equipped vehicles whose job is to collect data for building and refreshing maps. Cover how mapping needs (new areas, stale areas) become…
Last asked Jun 2026
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Query machines from an API and mark them offlineCodingWrite code against an HTTP API for a machine inventory: fetch the machines, pick out the ones that should be taken out of service, and call the API to mark each of them offline…
Last asked Feb 2026
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Design batched reboots across a machine fleetSystem designDesign a system that reboots a large set of machines in batches rather than all at once. Cover how batches are chosen and sized, how you confirm each machine came back healthy…
Last asked Feb 2026