Take home assessment involved fixing issues with dependency injection as well as extending existing API behavior. Emphasis on multithreading and asynchronous processing.
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Talk about yourself and any previous experience
How did you improve the efficiency of a product or process in your department.
Questions were from core and day to day activity.
From India team there were 2 interviewers. They started with the introduction about themselves and the asked about me. Why I want to be a SRE? Then the technical round started. Started with some basic questions related to C++ and then followed by medium level questions related to DSA and algorithms. Then at last had few questions related to SQL. Then a week later had the interview with the Boise team. There were 5 interviewers. With them it was more like a discussion rather than an interview. started with introduction then a output deriving question from C++. Then one by one they started asking about by experience, about all the other projects which I had done in my internships. They asked about what tools were used, how did the ci/cd pipeline designed. They focused on the entire flow from writing a code, testing it. Merging it and then deploying it. Then they asked about my experience with docker, kubernetes, openshift, foreman, ansible. Which I had none. This interview went for approx 1.5 hrs. We also had a very detailed discussion on our project. Why was it required? Was there any other way arround.
Derive integrator gain. What’s the integrator output waveform. Draw cmos inverter. Explain p-n junction and draw band diagram. MOSFET basic
How do you design systems for reliability?
On a scale of 1-10 what is your skill level with linux? What about for networking such as TCP/IP protocols?
Binary search Some dynamic programing problem with substrings Difference between VM and container? How are layers created in Docker images? Describe Kubernetes components (apiserver, scheduler, controller manager ..) Describe the process of creating a new pod in Kubernetes (how the request goes through components)? Describe the structure of the URL? What is the OSI model? How three had shake greeting and four shake termination works in TCP? What are latency and throughput? What is SRE?
First was leetcode round. They asked 2 questions- both were string manipulation. The second round was a free flowing conversation on linux fundamentals, starting from commands to situational questions on how to debug.
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