1. HackerRank coding round (2 easy questions).

2. Recruiter prescreening call (sets up interview).

3. Interview:

   • 45 minutes: Behavioral (basic questions about career, interests, past experiences, achievements, etc.).
   • 1 hour: Technical (no coding questions).

Technical questions cover Linux CLI inner workings and basic CLI command testing. Topics include system design, challenges faced and how to overcome them when calling applications, and scenario-based discussions. Senior SREs are helpful during the interview.

Your application is getting popular and receiving millions of read requests. How will you handle it?

Follow-up: Now, heavy writes are coming in. How will you scale then and maintain a consistent state?

100 machines need to sync data every hour. How will you go about it? Explain in detail.

Follow-up 1: Low bandwidth means you can't go with the naive approach.

Follow-up 2: We can't use a tree process; it still won't complete in time.