A recruiter contacted me for a senior role on LinkedIn. She did setup a call, and explained two open positions relevant to my profile. We decided to go ahead with Platform Engineers team. They will send you an assignment that should be completed within 4-8 hours. I felt it to be more than a day work; If you know everything asked in the assignment and best practices around it, then you can probably finish it earlier. I took 3-4 days to read and implement the solution. They liked my approach, gave me detailed feedback, and called me for the next round. Next round was with two senior engineers. They grilled me over Docker, CICD, Observability, Kubernetes. I was very confident around observability, CICD and showed them some of my past work as well. Kubernetes, Docker part didn’t go as expected but I gave them answers based on my understanding; Still, It was a 50-50 chance. I got a rejection email a few day later. Recruiter explained me the part that went well, and things that they were expecting me to be better at. It was a detailed email and recruiter was also ready to get on a call and explain me what didn’t go as expected. Overall, it was a positive experience.

I had three technical interviews including a system design interview and a software engineering basic DSA, and an executive interview. Questions were mainly about Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and Monitoring. The DSA problem included solving a simple DSA problem and talking through the solution explaining about time complexity of it.