They asked me a bunch of system design and program language related questions. I was a little shocked they asked me all those for an SRE position (maybe because I have backend dev experience). This will vary depending on position/past experience.
Site Reliability Interview Questions
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Take home exercise - practical coding question
The interview started off with an hour-long conversation with Tracy Hoel (a fantastic recruiter!) to discuss career interest followed by a standard SRE questionnaire. Within a few days Webex Interview set up with one of the Senior Site Reliability Engineer which was about 45 mins. The Webex interview is on Standard SRE questions and programming knowledge about coding/scripting. After the webex interview with the Senior Site Reliability Engineer, it is followed up an onsite interview. Onsite interview consists of coding, Linux, debugging questions & discussion on my current projects with Senior Site Reliability Engineer and TechOps Manager. After the interview with Manager and Senior SRE had an interview with Senior Director and discussed about my current projects, achievements and job details, responsibilities etc. The interview panel including Senior SRE's, TechOps Manager and Senior Director made the environment so comfortable that the whole onsite interview process went smoothly. Throughout the process recruiter Tracy Hoel easily accessible over the chat and always kept me posted for the current and upcoming processes. She is a fantastic recruiter.
Questions around kubernetes, GCP and day to day tasks.
Explain the difference between Monolithic and microservice architecture
Tell me about yourself. Why do you want to work for TikTok?
Given a list of singly linked list, return another singly linked list with unique nodes.
Describe a time during your work/studies/projects where you didn't have the necessary skills/knowledge for the task at hand, and how you adapted to the situation.
What is DNS? What differentiates a REST API from a GraphQL API? How would you debug a sudden slowdown of an endpoint in a service?
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