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Code a program utility used in DSN replication that queries DNS and based on separate input determines what changes need to be made for DNS records. Example usage and input is provided. Explain pros and cons to microservice and monolithic architectures Give an example of something you're proud of and you're role in it. Give an example of a production incident you were involved in and describe resolution and your role in it.
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Infrastructure Engineer

Interviewed at GitHub

3.7
May 11, 2019

Code a program utility used in DSN replication that queries DNS and based on separate input determines what changes need to be made for DNS records. Example usage and input is provided. Explain pros and cons to microservice and monolithic architectures Give an example of something you're proud of and you're role in it. Give an example of a production incident you were involved in and describe resolution and your role in it.

Question about yourself and past experiences. Explain a loop in a physical network and a virtual network. What is a witness in a failover cluster? What if in a ESXi you have servers (nodes) with different CPU? Questions about monitoring triggers. How does resources allocation work in ESXi? What do you do if this and that happens.
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Infrastructure Specialist

Interviewed at Pirelli

3.9
Apr 5, 2025

Question about yourself and past experiences. Explain a loop in a physical network and a virtual network. What is a witness in a failover cluster? What if in a ESXi you have servers (nodes) with different CPU? Questions about monitoring triggers. How does resources allocation work in ESXi? What do you do if this and that happens.

Presentation, Motivations, personnality, lots of Competence Based .Difficult in the sense that Sr Manager would always push questions further - not clear always were they were heading to, except to ambush you. Some specific knowledge questions despite the ad saying prior specific knowledge was not necessary.
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Market Infrastructure Expert

Interviewed at Bank of England

3.8
Aug 17, 2021

Presentation, Motivations, personnality, lots of Competence Based .Difficult in the sense that Sr Manager would always push questions further - not clear always were they were heading to, except to ambush you. Some specific knowledge questions despite the ad saying prior specific knowledge was not necessary.

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