Rust Interview - Advanced Level
For senior developers with 4+ years of Rust experience. Master unsafe Rust, async/await, macros, FFI, and production systems at scale.
35-45 minutes
4+ years of Rust experience
Who is this for?
Senior Rust engineers
Technical leads and architects
Systems programmers at scale
Those preparing for senior/staff roles
What you'll practice
Writing safe unsafe code
Async/await and Tokio
Creating procedural macros
FFI with C libraries
Performance optimization
Production system architecture
Topics covered
Unsafe Rust
unsafe keyword
Raw pointers
FFI
Memory layout
Async/Await
Futures trait
Tokio runtime
async/await syntax
Pin and Unpin
Macros
Procedural macros
Derive macros
Attribute macros
macro_rules! advanced
Performance
Zero-cost abstractions
SIMD
Lock-free structures
Profiling and optimization
Example questions
Q:
When is it necessary to use unsafe Rust?
Q:
How does async/await work in Rust?
Q:
What is Pin and why is it needed?
Q:
How do you create a procedural macro?
Q:
How does FFI work with C libraries?
Q:
What are zero-cost abstractions in Rust?
Preparation tips
Study unsafe Rust carefully
Master async/await and Tokio
Learn macro systems
Understand FFI
Practice performance optimization
Build production systems
Continue your journey
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