Senior Database Reliability Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
I agree with other reviewers regarding their dubious coding challenge practice.
They lost one of my emails containing the solution to one of the tasks. The other solution was tested by NO ONE!
When I brought this to their attention, they promised to follow up. As expected, there was no feedback.
My advice: start with a tech screen call before you spend your time on their coding challenges.
Questions
A trivial task to fix the Apache web server. The other one was to write code to emulate a configuration management tool like Chef/Puppet.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Slack Senior Database Reliability Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Slack's interview process for their Senior Database Reliability Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Slack's Senior Database Reliability Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Slack Work Experiences
- 5.0Great people and opportunities, but pay is uncompetitiveSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, NYAugust 24, 2026Pros: Legitimately great people and great opportunities.Cons: Salesforce means salary bands are not competitive; and they lost a lot of great people.
- 4.0Great work-life balance, but culture can clashSoftware Engineer II • Current EmployeeVancouver, BCJune 22, 2026Pros: - Great WLB - Good compensation - Great coworkersCons: Culture sometimes clashes with Salesforce. Lots of org changes.
- 4.0Great Team, Less Favorable AdministrationStaff Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, CAAugust 7, 2024Pros: Good compensation Fun projects Smart engineersCons: Leadership doesn't know what it's doing. Salesforce refuses to leverage Slack properly. Growth is more limited than it should be.
