I was interviewed by BlazeMeter, a Broadcom company.

The first step was small talk with the direct manager. It was nothing special, just a regular "tell me about yourself" and him telling me about what he does and the company. I wasn't actively looking for an enterprise company, but the guy seemed really fun and professional, with a start-up attitude within an enterprise, so I decided to give it a try.

We scheduled a 3-hour technical task interview.

It was quite easy, just regular stuff: building some Docker containers and deploying them using Jenkins to a Kubernetes cluster. An instance for Jenkins was provided, as well as a K8s cluster.

After I finished, I was asked to show my work and explain what I had done. Some general DevOps knowledge questions were also asked by one of the team members. It was pretty standard and nice.

The second interview was a design interview scheduled with their Architect. I was waiting for him in the scheduled e-meeting room. A couple of minutes past the scheduled time, I was called by a manager telling me that the interviewer was having issues with their video software and I was asked to move to another room.

From the first minutes, I got the feeling that he didn't want to interview me at all. He wasn't synced with the process I had completed before, and the whole talk wasn't as pleasant as a design interview should be.

Build a pipeline on a fresh Jenkins that builds and deploys Docker images to a Kubernetes cluster.