Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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Load average mean ? is it busy or not if load average is 2, when there has 100 cpu cores ? what the decorate keywords in python ? how do you backup the data of statefulset resource in K8s ? what happens behind te k8s when you commit a creating pod kubectl command ? how to limit the K8s workload to import the image from specific site ? explain what project I most proud of, difference between adminssion control and ingress ? how to do scale the K8s workload for pod and node ? brainstorming what to consider when you need to maintain/deploy more than 1000 K8s clusters ?
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Elastic

3.8
Apr 19, 2023

Load average mean ? is it busy or not if load average is 2, when there has 100 cpu cores ? what the decorate keywords in python ? how do you backup the data of statefulset resource in K8s ? what happens behind te k8s when you commit a creating pod kubectl command ? how to limit the K8s workload to import the image from specific site ? explain what project I most proud of, difference between adminssion control and ingress ? how to do scale the K8s workload for pod and node ? brainstorming what to consider when you need to maintain/deploy more than 1000 K8s clusters ?

k8s - deployment, services, ingress, liveness / readiness probes. helm - how to automate testing using helm charts terraform - what are modules or why do we use it? Stress on code reusability, smaller pieces of code practice. The person interviewing seemed very nervous and inexperienced for a senior Site Reliability Engineer position . He was not interested in the candidate's previous experience but had some basic questions about AWS, kubernetes, terraform, and helm chart.  The person seemed to be waiting for the answer he has in his mind and once you utter those "exact" words, he will proceed to the next question. There is no back and forth discussion or exploratory questions to understand the depth of knowledge. What is more important is that the person gets borderline angry and gets agitated when I ask some 'ways of working in the team' related questions. The team structure is very unorganized and seemed to lack team player mentality. 
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Trade Republic

2.8
Apr 7, 2022

k8s - deployment, services, ingress, liveness / readiness probes. helm - how to automate testing using helm charts terraform - what are modules or why do we use it? Stress on code reusability, smaller pieces of code practice. The person interviewing seemed very nervous and inexperienced for a senior Site Reliability Engineer position . He was not interested in the candidate's previous experience but had some basic questions about AWS, kubernetes, terraform, and helm chart.  The person seemed to be waiting for the answer he has in his mind and once you utter those "exact" words, he will proceed to the next question. There is no back and forth discussion or exploratory questions to understand the depth of knowledge. What is more important is that the person gets borderline angry and gets agitated when I ask some 'ways of working in the team' related questions. The team structure is very unorganized and seemed to lack team player mentality. 

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