The interview process began with one phone screening interview via Chime with the hiring manager. This was followed by four more interviews in the loop stage.

Overall, everyone was nice and made me feel comfortable. The questions asked were relevant, and as I am from the DevOps field, many of the questions were related to it.

Define Kubernetes - main components (Pods, Services, etcd, Heapster, Scheduler, Cluster Autoscaler, HPA).

Databases - Relational vs. NoSQL: when and why to use each, pros and cons. Scaling in each: partitioning, sharding.

Whiteboarding:

• In the phone screening, I whiteboarded Spotify.
• In the loop, I whiteboarded a COVID app that connects to external APIs and aggregates data into dashboards.

What's the difference between a Container and a VM?

How would you design a CDN? Which components will it include? Which caching strategies?

What did you learn outside of your work that you used to improve your work life?

Tell me about a time when you took on something significant outside your area of responsibility, and why was that important?

Give me an example of a time you were able to deliver an important project under a tight deadline. Did you have to make any sacrifices to meet this deadline?

Tell me about a time when you not only met a goal but considerably exceeded expectations.

Why AWS? What brings you to be talking with us?

Can you provide an example of when you asked a customer for feedback?

Tell me about a time you failed.

As you look back on your career so far, what would you say you're most proud of?