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5 http interview questions, asked at Nvidia, Amazon, Google and 1 more company. Last asked Oct 2026.

Fetch paginated records and filter them by rules and a historical averageCodingAn HTTP endpoint serves patients' medical records, ten per page, with no page count given up front. Each record has many fields, most of them irrelevant to you. 1. Fetch every…
Last asked Oct 2026
Collect host metrics and post them to a serverCodingOn a Linux VM, gather CPU, memory and disk usage, send them as JSON in an HTTP POST to a given endpoint, and then flag any metric above a threshold.
Last asked Oct 2026
Call a flaky HTTP API with Python requests and handle every errorCodingUsing Python's requests, write a client for a few endpoints of a fake API (you have its docs; the code does not need to run against a real server). Handle the failure cases…
Last asked Sep 2026
Breadth-first web crawler with retriesCodingIn your own IDE, write a crawler that walks a given website breadth-first from a start URL, normalizing URLs and retrying requests that fail. API docs are allowed; AI tools are…
Last asked Mar 2026
Host several websites on one server with one public IPSystem designYou have one server and one public IP address, and three small businesses each want their own website at their own domain. Explain how to serve all three from that machine, then…
Last asked Feb 2026