Applied through the TickTock careers page for the position in the Singapore office and was contacted by the recruiter two months later.

Had three technical online interviews with the SRE engineers from the Shanghai office. All three interviews were very similar and covered the following topics:

• Docker/Kubernetes/VMs
• Networking, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS
• Processes and threads
• Coding algorithms

Binary search

Some dynamic programming problems with substrings

Difference between a VM and a container?

How are layers created in Docker images?

Describe Kubernetes components (apiserver, scheduler, controller manager, etc.)

Describe the process of creating a new pod in Kubernetes (how the request goes through components).

Describe the structure of a URL.

What is the OSI model?

How the three-way handshake greeting and four-way handshake termination works in TCP?

What are latency and throughput?

What is SRE?