I initially met with HR and went over the usual questions and cleared that. I was then invited for a technical interview with manager Keith and 2 other senior engineers (the X-Men: Charles and Xavier) and had a very very positive experience. I really enjoyed this interview, Keith made me feel very comfortable and actually made me feel smarter rather than dumb which is not common because most of my experience has been the opposite. The other two engineers, the X-Men were very respectful and never made me feel less when I didn't answer correctly. A lot of the questions were verbal, a lot of troubleshooting, design, K8S parts and the only hands-on was to create a function to parse results from a URL. The best part about this task is they actually give you the tools you need to get it done. Keith said, "feel free to use any tools necessary to get it done" and that alone made this interview possibly the best experience I ever had. Unlike other companies who expect you to know this without reading a single website, Lightspeed understood that reality is you are likely to use internet to get things done. I probably didn't get the job but it was refreshing and I hope all companies take the note and adapt the same approach. I don't even care that I didn't get the job, the experience was enough to feel good about where I am today.

I applied for a role at Sydney LightSpeed office. I was so disappointed with the Director sitting at Germany and the feedback given. There were 4 stages I went through. 1. Technical overview call - I did well 2. Technical Code - I have completed the code and the guy who reviewed liked it. 3. Technical Interview on Code - I have explained every aspect of the architecture in terms of AWS, Terraforms, Security side of things, CI/CD process. Both the manager and the interviewer liked my answers very much and was selected at least until here. 4. Director Level interview - I did well here too and this guys rejected me. Do you know what I received as part of feedback? You look to be a very good mid-senior level SRE however we are looking for someone who is more senior to this role. To the guys who are interviewing, if you are looking for senior level candidates or dont feel someone is senior to a role, WHY DO YOU PASS THE CANDIDATES TO NEXT LEVEL? Isn't that waste of time for everyone? Be on your decision, just don't waste time which illogical feedback. Reject if you dont feel at the first place. Do not increase hopes of a candidate by passing them to next rounds.