Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experience - Singapore, Singapore
Process
I only made it to the second round.
The first round was with the recruiter, asking general questions. The second round was with a US engineer, focusing on Kubernetes questions related to my experience in particular. For mine, it was mainly around Istio and traffic routing within the cluster.
A quick LeetCode round was also done at this point; it was just a generic LeetCode Medium.
The next round was a System Design round, which was conducted in Mandarin. This was something I was not prepared for because system design is usually a bidirectional street, and I think having both the interviewer and the candidate converse in a language they are both comfortable in is fairly important. The interviewer did not feel prepared for this round either.
I received a rejection shortly after.
Questions
Mainly related to your own experience. Questions are all derived from there.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 4 interview experiences for the ByteDance Site Reliability Engineer role in Singapore, Singapore.
Success Rate
ByteDance's interview process for their Site Reliability Engineer roles in Singapore, Singapore is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
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ByteDance Work Experiences
- 3.0Good pay, weird placeSite Reliability Engineer • Former EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesSeptember 2, 2025Pros: Great benefits Great pay Interesting workCons: The overwhelming use of Mandarin makes it difficult to get work done as someone who doesn’t speak the language.
- 1.0Good Pay, Zero Work-lifeSite Reliability Engineer • Current EmployeeSingapore, SingaporeDecember 23, 2023Pros: Starting pay is good, but if your performance sucks, there's no point staying.Cons: No work-life balance at all.
- 1.0Don't joinSite Reliability Engineer • Former EmployeeSingaporeApril 16, 2026Pros: Free food and good pay, and a bonus if your boss likes you enough.Cons: You are basically a customer support officer. There is no real SRE work, so there is no technical depth and no growth for your career. They are ruthless in their hiring and firing practices, and they give rubbish reasons for termination, which is why their job posting is constantly there. All meetings are done in Chinese, and so are the majority of the documents, which are either outdated or nonexistent, as well as conversations. Honestly, do not join.
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