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Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

February 2, 2022
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Process

Not too bad. I was told what to expect. The interview process had organizers book several interviews, starting with a technical one. Clearly, during the technical one, they had issues with certain areas (e.g., debugging an Nginx-specific issue), leading to the remaining interviews being cancelled abruptly.

The interview was not looking for what I know or how I can learn exactly, as most interviews in the field should be geared toward. Rather, they were looking for specific skills you have and knowledge in really particular areas (e.g., Nginx/Ubuntu debugging). This really tells them nothing about what I know or my strengths, etc., whether I can re-apply those strengths to specific areas. They really skimmed over my knowledge and what I do (almost like they didn't care).

Questions

  • Random commands on kubectl (all super easy)
  • Troubleshoot something specific about Nginx on Ubuntu
  • Figure out how to parse logs in a file (which I found rather silly, tbh)

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