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DevOps Engineer I Interview Experience - San Diego, California

December 1, 2021
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Process

Applied online. 3 days later got a call to briefly go over resume and the role. 3 hours later was scheduled video call with "Director of DevOps" to go over details of resume and role. 2 days later was scheduled the final interviews (4 back-to-back video calls of 30 min. each).

1st interview was with a "Staff DevOps Engineer" who asked about my DevOps related experience then asked me to write code using paper/pencil (which I didn't have) or by sharing my text editor (which didn't work) so I suggested entering my answer into the chat. The next interviewer entered the call before I even had a chance to do the problem so I was asked to forward my answer by email afterwards.

2nd interview was with another "Staff DevOps Engineer" who also asked about my DevOps related experience then asked me Linux related questions.

3rd interview was with the "DevOps Manager" who again, asked about my DevOps related experience then asked questions relating to Linux, software release, Git, and Docker containers. This interview was less intense than the two before and went on for an hour since I was allowed to take two breaks.

4th interview was scheduled two hours later since it was with the "Sr. DevOps Manager" in Singapore who asked about my DevOps experience and other questions relating to load balancers, containers, SSL, DNS, and CI/CD.

Within 3 days I got a call and was given an offer for the "DevOps Engineer I" position, although I applied for the "DevOps Engineer II" position. Their reason for that was because I did have the required years of experience, but it was not all DevOps related. So after negotiating the offer and after another 3 days, I accepted the new offer.

Questions

Write code for fibonacci numbers. How do you use the "awk" command to view only the second column of an output? What does the -i and -v options do in a "grep" command? Search for a file with the string "illumina".How do you set read, write, and execute permissions for the owner, read and execute permissions for the group, and no permissions for others? What is the process when releasing software? What are some test case scenarios for a login feature of a web application? What is the difference between "git fetch" and "git pull"? What is the difference between "git merge" and "git rebase"? How do you check the status of the last Linux command that was ran? If you forgot your password in Linux, how do you reset it? What are the different runlevels in Linux? What are sticky bits used for? How do you interact with files of a container if you do not have the permissions? How do you implement SSL for your website? How do containers in Kubernetes pods communicate with outside users? From 1-10, how would you rate your Python skills? If a users access your website, how would it know it's your loadbalancer? What is DevOps CI/CD and why is it so important? What is one challenge you faced during work and how did you overcome it? Tell me about a time when you were innovative at work.

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