I applied online. I interviewed at EPAM Systems (Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) in May 2023
Interview
There are 4 rounds in EPAM. The first round is with a recruiter; the second round is a technical interview; and the third round is with a manager. After 3 rounds, usually you will get a conditional offer and then join the client interview. If you pass with that client, you will join that client's project.
Mainly the interview went as expected. In general, I was aware of the process, as it was not the first time. However I would like to mention the scripting part of an interview. I was asked to write "a terraform script" and "groove script". From my point, writing a code from scratch on the blank page is not representing any abilities. Instead, we could work on a piece of code or snippet. Scripts that DevOps use are reusable. No one creates pipelines or automation scripts from scratch, so, no need to remember those by heard.
Other than that, all good. I gave been also asked regarding some soft skills wich is equally important. Good to see that hiring process consider that.
I applied online. I interviewed at EPAM Systems in Feb 2022
Interview
The technical interview was pretty straight forward. Just popular questions, nothing too tricky. There was no coding challenge, but perhaps this depends on the interviewer. Up to this point, the process was smooth and fast.
But then I was told that the results would come within 2 days, now it's been 2 weeks already and I still haven't heard from them (not sure if the Russia - Ukraine tensions had anything to do with this).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Questions about popular cloud services (AWS S3, Azure Key Vault, Cloud formation, Lambda, Web app, Monitoring services, etc.)
- Jenkins.
- Docker, Kubernetes.
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban.
- Terraform, Ansible.
- A few soft skill questions.