Infrastructure Engineer Interview Questions

Infrastructure Engineer Interview Questions

Infrastructure engineers are responsible for building and maintaining digital networks. In your interview for an infrastructure engineer position, be prepared to answer technical questions about IT systems and software. Interviewers may also ask non-technical questions to assess your communication and time management skills.

Top Infrastructure Engineer Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: How do you communicate complex issues to non-engineer colleagues or clients?

How to answer
How to answer: Interviewers use this question to assess your ability to communicate IT information to co-workers and clients from non-IT backgrounds. List and describe the verbal and written communication strategies you have used in the past to break down difficult concepts into understandable pieces.
Question 2

Question #2: What are the positive and negative aspects of working within an Agile construct?

How to answer
How to answer: Agile is one of the most popular project management and software development approaches used by IT teams. This question allows interviewers to assess your understanding of the Agile environment as well as your approach to teamwork and interpersonal communication. If possible, use previous work experience to elaborate on the benefits and issues you have experienced working within an Agile environment.
Question 3

Question #3: How do you produce quality work when you have several projects to complete?

How to answer
How to answer: Infrastructure engineers must juggle all of their projects while simultaneously dealing with infrastructure issues requiring immediate attention. Interviewers use this question to assess your time-management skills and your ability to work well under pressure. List and discuss planning tools you use on the job and how you handle emergency issues.

3,742 infrastructure engineer interview questions shared by candidates

Some students had separate technical and HR rounds but some had just1 round which covered both of them.It depended on in which cabin you were called up.Obviously we didn't know this thing initially,it was only after my selection that I came to knew that some had 2 rounds and some had 1.I was among those students who just had 1 round of interview covering everything.Interviewer was friendly.He started off asking me to tell him something about myself and then questions followed up related to what so ever I told.He then asked what aare your favourite subjects and I being a computer science engg. student said "c,c++,dbms,data structures".Then he said ok lets start with C. He asked "what is recursion","write factorial program using recursion and explain the logic behind it" "what is referential integrity with respect to DBMS","have you studied algorithms in data structures". Then he asked what is my father and I told him he is a maths teacher.He then asked "how is your maths knowledge wise".I said "good".Then he said "what all things did you study in maths at college level".I told him "differentiation","integration".He said "no no these are basic +2 things,I want to know something advanced in maths".I told him about "approximations,methods like bisection method".He then asked "normal distribution,Zi equation".At the end he said I am not selected.I had an intuition that he is saying it delibrately and that I dont need to worry about it but still it was my first interview so I was afraid a bit,though I felt like saying "how dare you say this to me" meanwhile just in 2 3 seconds so much went through my mind since I read somewhere earlier that INAUTIX company wants such people who can handle stress so I thought may be he is testing how do I handle this pressure situation I replied him with a warm smile saying "no problem sir it was just my first interview,so what if I am not selected I have learned so much from you,I will take this experience along with me,thankyou sir".And then after few days when the final selection list came I found my name there.It was such an awesome feeling,1st interview and cracked that too when you are just in 3rd year of BE.Proud moment.
Aug 5, 2016

Some students had separate technical and HR rounds but some had just1 round which covered both of them.It depended on in which cabin you were called up.Obviously we didn't know this thing initially,it was only after my selection that I came to knew that some had 2 rounds and some had 1.I was among those students who just had 1 round of interview covering everything.Interviewer was friendly.He started off asking me to tell him something about myself and then questions followed up related to what so ever I told.He then asked what aare your favourite subjects and I being a computer science engg. student said "c,c++,dbms,data structures".Then he said ok lets start with C. He asked "what is recursion","write factorial program using recursion and explain the logic behind it" "what is referential integrity with respect to DBMS","have you studied algorithms in data structures". Then he asked what is my father and I told him he is a maths teacher.He then asked "how is your maths knowledge wise".I said "good".Then he said "what all things did you study in maths at college level".I told him "differentiation","integration".He said "no no these are basic +2 things,I want to know something advanced in maths".I told him about "approximations,methods like bisection method".He then asked "normal distribution,Zi equation".At the end he said I am not selected.I had an intuition that he is saying it delibrately and that I dont need to worry about it but still it was my first interview so I was afraid a bit,though I felt like saying "how dare you say this to me" meanwhile just in 2 3 seconds so much went through my mind since I read somewhere earlier that INAUTIX company wants such people who can handle stress so I thought may be he is testing how do I handle this pressure situation I replied him with a warm smile saying "no problem sir it was just my first interview,so what if I am not selected I have learned so much from you,I will take this experience along with me,thankyou sir".And then after few days when the final selection list came I found my name there.It was such an awesome feeling,1st interview and cracked that too when you are just in 3rd year of BE.Proud moment.

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