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What is your strategy for parsing and storing unstructured logs so they remain instantly searchable at scale

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1 answer published. Last candidate submission on Jul 5 2026, 5:07am PDT. Interview question asked to Software Engineers interviewing at Pluralsight, Glassdoor, Riot Games and other companies. Original question asked: What is your strategy for parsing and storing unstructured logs so they remain instantly searchable at scale. Question last reported by a candidate interviewing at Box for a Software Engineer interview on Jun 15 2026, 8:38am PDT.