Senior Devops Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
I was contacted by the Zendesk recruiter over LinkedIn.
They set up an interview for me on-site after a phone screening with the team lead.
I was asked the usual skill questions: "How do you rate yourself on Ruby/Bash?" etc.
The on-site interview was about 4 hours. I met with 4 different groups from the tools and DevOps team.
Basic questions included: "Write me a filesystem monitor in Bash."
Architecture questions for scaling MySQL over multiple datacenters.
Write a Chef recipe from scratch.
Parse XML in Ruby.
Once the technical interviews were over, I met with a director who pretty much laid out the fact they would be making me an offer. I had the offer the very next day.
Questions
Writing a chef recipe from memory.
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Zendesk's interview process for their Senior Devops roles in San Francisco, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
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Zendesk Work Experiences
- 2.0Mismanagement at the deepest levelStaff Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesSeptember 16, 2024Pros: Benefits are decent. PTO is greatly encouraged on some teams still.Cons: They seem unable to retain leadership. Folks keep leaving or are let go. They leave and no one replaces them, and then more layoffs ensue for lower-level workers and middle management.
- 4.0Great working environment & lots of opportunity to learnSoftware Engineer Intern • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 16, 2021Pros: - Very open on sharing. Lunch & learns! - Low pressure environment. - You can learn from anyone, even from outside your team. Everyone is just a Slack message away.Cons: Not all teams may have what you're looking for. For example, if you're looking for a team with a strong engineering focus, you need to be deliberate about looking for a team like that. Otherwise, you may end up in a team with more product focus than engineering. The office is smack in the middle of the Tenderloin and can be dangerous at times. Maybe the office has moved since I was there.
- 5.0Relaxed but challenging work environmentSoftware Development Intern • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesJanuary 9, 2019Pros: No large amount of structure was imposed upon me, allowing me to self-pace and seek out opportunities to learn. Employees were friendly, approachable, and eager to help.Cons: I have no major complaints.
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