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SRE Manager Interview Experience - Dublin, Ireland

September 1, 2016

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Process

Mail contact
Preparation email to fill and send back:
- Ideal role
- Not interested in
- Main area of expertise
- Direct and indirect reports
- Experience managing managers
- Percentage of the role that involves coding
- How do you stay technical?
- Self-evaluation on a 1-10 scale on subject areas such as:
  - TCP/IP networking
  - Unix/Linux internals
  - Unix/Linux system administration
  - Algorithms and data structures
  - C
  - C++
  - Python, etc.
Phone presentation
Phone screening of the subject areas that you have ranked the highest. The questions are pre-written and surprisingly scholarly. Never got to discuss about management philosophy, hiring, coaching, ability to manage people who are more technically specialized than you, ability to constantly learn and adapt.

Questions

Which function is used in C to allocate a block of memory? To free?

Which function is used in C++ to allocate a block of memory? To free?

How many bytes are necessary to store a MAC address?

What is an inode?

What are the packets exchanged to establish a TCP connection?

Which of the following algorithms is not \u0398(log(n))?

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Google's interview process for their SRE Manager roles in Dublin, Dublin is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Google's SRE Manager interview process in Dublin, Dublin.

Google Work Experiences

Excellence became arrogance

SRE Manager • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Smart coworkers, good benefits, and (originally) a strong goal to change the world for the better.

Cons: Hired too many senior leaders with questionable moral compasses, ignored the fact that their technical lead in many areas was rapidly declining, became arrogant in their success, and refused to acknowledge that the exodus of many mid-level leaders indicated a big problem.

Excellence became arrogance

SRE Manager • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Smart coworkers, good benefits, and (originally) a strong goal to change the world for the better.

Cons: Hired too many senior leaders with questionable moral compasses, ignored the fact that their technical lead in many areas was rapidly declining, became arrogant in their success, and refused to acknowledge that the exodus of many mid-level leaders indicated a big problem.

Culture seriously deteriorated

SRE Manager • Former Employee

October 4, 2024

Pros: Still pays well, tries to be good in some areas. Great internal tools and infrastructure.

Cons: Uninspired middle management, high bureaucracy, deteriorating culture.

Culture seriously deteriorated

SRE Manager • Former Employee

October 4, 2024

Pros: Still pays well, tries to be good in some areas. Great internal tools and infrastructure.

Cons: Uninspired middle management, high bureaucracy, deteriorating culture.

Amazing Company to work with

Ads Quality Evaluator • Current Employee

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

January 25, 2017

Pros: If you're good at networking, this is a place for amazing opportunities. Extreme time flexibility and no stress. Free food, always, everywhere.

Cons: Repetitive tasks and working alone all the time might be very frustrating. Also, being on a contract makes you a less valuable employee; you're not a real Googler. It can be very annoying at times, even if it does not impact your work.

Amazing Company to work with

Ads Quality Evaluator • Current Employee

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

January 25, 2017

Pros: If you're good at networking, this is a place for amazing opportunities. Extreme time flexibility and no stress. Free food, always, everywhere.

Cons: Repetitive tasks and working alone all the time might be very frustrating. Also, being on a contract makes you a less valuable employee; you're not a real Googler. It can be very annoying at times, even if it does not impact your work.

Excellence became arrogance

SRE Manager • Former Employee

San Jose, California, United States

Pros: Smart coworkers, good benefits, and (originally) a strong goal to change the world for the better.

Cons: Hired too many senior leaders with questionable moral compasses, ignored the fact that their technical lead in many areas was rapidly declining, became arrogant in their success, and refused to acknowledge that the exodus of many mid-level leaders indicated a big problem.

3.0
Excellence became arrogance
SRE Manager • Former Employee
San Jose, California, United States
August 6, 2021
Pros: Smart coworkers, good benefits, and (originally) a strong goal to change the world for the better.
Cons: Hired too many senior leaders with questionable moral compasses, ignored the fact that their technical lead in many areas was rapidly declining, became arrogant in their success, and refused to acknowledge that the exodus of many mid-level leaders indicated a big problem.

Culture seriously deteriorated

SRE Manager • Former Employee

October 4, 2024

Pros: Still pays well, tries to be good in some areas. Great internal tools and infrastructure.

Cons: Uninspired middle management, high bureaucracy, deteriorating culture.

3.0
Culture seriously deteriorated
SRE Manager • Former Employee
October 4, 2024
Pros: Still pays well, tries to be good in some areas. Great internal tools and infrastructure.
Cons: Uninspired middle management, high bureaucracy, deteriorating culture.

Amazing Company to work with

Ads Quality Evaluator • Current Employee

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

January 25, 2017

Pros: If you're good at networking, this is a place for amazing opportunities. Extreme time flexibility and no stress. Free food, always, everywhere.

Cons: Repetitive tasks and working alone all the time might be very frustrating. Also, being on a contract makes you a less valuable employee; you're not a real Googler. It can be very annoying at times, even if it does not impact your work.

5.0
Amazing Company to work with
Ads Quality Evaluator • Current Employee
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
January 25, 2017
Pros: If you're good at networking, this is a place for amazing opportunities. Extreme time flexibility and no stress. Free food, always, everywhere.
Cons: Repetitive tasks and working alone all the time might be very frustrating. Also, being on a contract makes you a less valuable employee; you're not a real Googler. It can be very annoying at times, even if it does not impact your work.

Google Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Palindrome Number

Determine whether an integer is a palindrome. That is, it reads the same forwards and backward.

Bit Manipulation

Add Two Numbers

You are given two linked lists, each representing a non-negative integer. Add the two numbers and return the sum as a linked list.

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