[kmarc]

That's what I do (instead of curl, with a browser).

MANY super cool convos spun out of this question (interviewed around 60 people). One of them never actually got to the network request part bc we went DEEP into event handlers in a GUI etc. Another candidate was all over the place with key exchange protocols and what and how can go wrong.

I usually don't ask further questions to "corner" them, let them go into any of the details they want.

Ah, I am so happy I am not the only one who invented this interview method :-)

[kranner]

This is a popular question, turns out.

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

[kmarc]

Thanks for this. Looks like it's going deep into "client side".

Thing about "Google.com" (I used Facebook/Gmail) is that when server side stuff is of interest (as it was for this cloud engineer job), then I also want to hear about geo DNS, reverse proxies, LBs, CDNs, eventual consistency, distributed storage, etc, all the complexity that is happening once that cat video appears in the browser.

Then again we can go back to JS, CSS, JIT and others' space

[xdeepak81]

This is the most common question for screening non-ICs like EM, TPM at Amazon.