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Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California

April 1, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

R1 - 30 Min with Manager.

Very strange. They didn't ask questions really, just prepped me for R2.

R2 - Take-home Terraform assignment.

Fix the Terraform code. There were lots of errors, purposely trying to trick you. There were spelling errors too.

R3 - Panel Interview.

They gave me a live troubleshooting of a Chef module deployed on an Nginx server. This was even though I didn't know any Chef or Nginx. They also said no Chef knowledge was needed, lol. Basically, the solution was to use Linux grep to find a "spelling error" in the Chef module. How is someone supposed to know that without any prior Chef experience, lol? The interview wasn't hard at all. I work on things way harder than that, but the interview was meant to trick you.

Also, during the panel interview, I got asked questions that didn't make sense on purpose by one of the newbies. I didn't want to tell them they were wrong, so I just let it be. They asked me, "Explain how security groups in AWS applied to subnets work?" That functionality doesn't exist, lol. That interviewer didn't know what he was talking about. How is it fair that I'm judged based on his dumb, misinformed question?

Questions

Fixing the take-home Terraform module.

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