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DevOps Engineer Interview Experience - Dublin, Ireland

April 8, 2025

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Process

I applied through an external recruiter. The process took 3 weeks.

First round: A discussion with a hiring manager and an engineer, covering many technical aspects in the job description, heavily focused on Kubernetes. I was able to answer all the questions with no difficulty at all. There was also a live coding assessment in a LeetCode style, which was easy to do.
Second round: A take-home practical test that involved deploying an app in Kubernetes and explaining all the steps. This was pretty easy for someone very familiar with k8s.
Third round: It was supposed to be a presentation of a piece of work or a personal project to a panel of engineers.

They said they were very interested in proceeding, but eventually started to slow down communications, never replying to my emails, even after chasing them multiple times. Despite all the comprehensive answers I provided in the interview and the practical test, explaining in many details everything I did, they eventually said I did not have enough experience for the role and my salary expectations were for a higher level, even though it was within their range. It was a total joke, to say the least. It sounds like they were only interested in someone cheap to hire for a senior position.

Questions

How to scale an app in Kubernetes (horizontal and vertical strategies)?

What is the difference between Deployment, StatefulSet, and DaemonSet?

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