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Senior Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experience - Prague

October 1, 2024
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Process

I interviewed for a role in the Prague office. The interviewing process went very smooth and was completed in about two weeks max. Everyone involved was very professional and overall it was a very positive experience!

Unfortunately, I had to decline the offer as the total compensation wouldn't be as much of an improvement for me as I was hoping for.

Questions

Typical "Tell us about yourself"

Linux questions involving commands as ssh, ssh-copy-id, top, uptime, what is pid, free, id/whoami. What kind of files is in /var/log? How to tell which application is listening on a specific port?

Some basic questions about SQL. How would I get a number of records in a table? What are indices for and why not to put them on all of the columns? Does indices take up any space in the database? How would I find out about slow queries?

Questions about telemetry/logging/observability/monitoring for which I didn't have many answers as I have only weak working knowledge of tools used in this area.

Second round was behavioral composed of "tell me about the time..." style questions.

  • What initiatives have I lead from the start to an end?
  • Persuading someone.
  • I know I’m not going to meet the deadline. What do I do?

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Interview Statistics

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Pass Rate

Barclays's interview process for their Senior Site Reliability Engineer roles in Prague is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Barclays's Senior Site Reliability Engineer interview process in Prague.