I received a call from LinkedIn's internal recruiter.

He asked about my work experience and if I was willing to relocate. He also described the job's workload a bit.

As Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) isn't really what I have been doing, the job description he provided didn't really resonate with me. He also asked some basic DNS lookup questions and Linux questions about system calls related to listing files and tools for checking I/O load. I passed this part, as these were easy for me, being a sysadmin.

The second interview was conducted by a junior technical staff member on the team.

The recruiter had sent me a list of exactly what would be asked:

• HTTP browser requests
• How to monitor a website
• How to distribute loads of files fast and accurately

The interviewer did ask all these questions and a bit more. Unfortunately, I don't have experience with websites; I am more of a sysadmin. I found myself guessing what I would have done, like detecting issues via a load balancer or Apache error logs.

I did not get to the next stage.

How to monitor a website, as this is not really my line of expertise.