I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Nextsilicon in Feb 2026
Interview
short phone call, was invited to their facility. interview took about 1.5 hours and was rather standard - tell me about a challenging task, and then a plane design question with followup questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
scheme showing a TCP-only load balancer that receives incoming client requests and forwards each request/frame to one of several backend servers.
How should a TCP load balancer process incoming frames and distribute them across multiple backend servers?
Scheme description:
Incoming traffic consists only of TCP requests. These requests first arrive at the load balancer. The load balancer processes each incoming frame using processFrame(frame* F, int numOfServers) and then forwards the frame using send2Server(frame* F).
The load balancer has three backend targets: 10.0.0.1 ,10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3
handleFrame(frame* F, int numOfServers)
{
processFrame(frame* F, int numOfServers);
send2Server(frame* F);
}
implement processFrame(frame* F, int numOfServers);
followup: what if a backend server fails?