Not too bad - I was told what to expect. The interview process had organizers book several interviews starting with a technical one. Clearly during the technical one they had issues with certain areas (e.g. debugging an Nginx-specific issue) leading to the remaining interviews being cancelled abruptly.
The interview was not looking for what I know or how I can learn exactly - as most interviews in the field should be geared toward. Rather they were looking for specific skills you have and knowledge in really particular areas - e.g. Nginx/Ubuntu debugging. This really tells them nothing about what I know or my strengths etc, whether I can re-apply those strengths to specific areas. They really skimmed over my knowledge and what I do (almost like they didn't care).
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
- Random commands on kubctl (all super easy)
- Troubleshoot something specific about Nginx on Ubuntu
- Figure out how to parse logs in a file (which I found rather silly tbh)
O processo levou 4 semanas. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa GitLab.
Entrevista
First recruiter screening then a technical interview then you talk to the engineering manager and you get another technical interview with a take home assessment and finally a senior engineering manager interview
Nice people, contacted by recruiter, had a chat.
Talked to different people in the teams that made sense - very positive feedback. Then they decided to remove 2 SRE positions - 1 of them was the team I wanted to join. They assigned me to a different SRE position.
Technical assessment at home and then talked it through with a developer. He stayed distant but polite. They told me that it's fine that I don't know Ruby and Go so well but I got the feeling that this was not the case.
I didn't receive an offer and tried to find out more. I never heard back and got no feedback at all.
4 Stages including the initial call. All a very polished process and people were friendly, although the questions were tough. Due to it's global remote nature some interviews may be at earlier/later times than you'd expect
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Pergunta 1
What is some feedback you received that you agreed with? And some that you didn't?
