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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

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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

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