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Round 1 HR: (1 person ) 30 min Q: Tell me about yourself Q: Linux commands questions like grep, awk, sed Q: Have you worked on on-prem VM's ? Q: What databases have you worked on? Q: Most challenging project and how you helped? Q: Do you know Jenkins and scripting in Groovy? Q: What language do you usually script in: python, bash, or both? Q: How would you check if the VM is down? Q: How to check if the disk space is running out? What steps will you take to rectify it? Q: Difference between inode and notify Round 2 : Take home Coding assignment: Q: Given a string like 'aaabccdee', return count of characters to remove to make it an string with all chars having even frequency Q: Given an array with days in it, write a function that takes a day and n as an input and returns the day that's n days from day. eg: ('wed', 3)=> sat Q: Given a file structure for music, images, videos arrange the extensions of file in their respective dir. eg : .jpg in images folder, .mp3 in music, .avi in videos folder. Round 3: Group Interview: (2 people): 90min Q: Command to see services running on VM Q: How would you manage certificates on VM? Q: What are docker layers? Q: What is docker multistage? Q: Difference between NodePort and ClusterIP? Q: How to check if the Apache service is running? Q: How did you migrate the Certificate? ( eg : Godaddy to ACM) Q: Where are the certificates stored? Q: Do you know certificate architecture in general? Explain it. Q: Explain how the client authenticates with a server? Q: Terraform vs Ansible ? Why did you choose Terraform? Q: Live coding: Fibonacci series for first 30 numbers. Any language.
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Intermediate DevOps/SRE Engineer (Linux)

Interviewed at Global Relay

2.5★
Jan 25, 2023

Round 1 HR: (1 person ) 30 min Q: Tell me about yourself Q: Linux commands questions like grep, awk, sed Q: Have you worked on on-prem VM's ? Q: What databases have you worked on? Q: Most challenging project and how you helped? Q: Do you know Jenkins and scripting in Groovy? Q: What language do you usually script in: python, bash, or both? Q: How would you check if the VM is down? Q: How to check if the disk space is running out? What steps will you take to rectify it? Q: Difference between inode and notify Round 2 : Take home Coding assignment: Q: Given a string like 'aaabccdee', return count of characters to remove to make it an string with all chars having even frequency Q: Given an array with days in it, write a function that takes a day and n as an input and returns the day that's n days from day. eg: ('wed', 3)=> sat Q: Given a file structure for music, images, videos arrange the extensions of file in their respective dir. eg : .jpg in images folder, .mp3 in music, .avi in videos folder. Round 3: Group Interview: (2 people): 90min Q: Command to see services running on VM Q: How would you manage certificates on VM? Q: What are docker layers? Q: What is docker multistage? Q: Difference between NodePort and ClusterIP? Q: How to check if the Apache service is running? Q: How did you migrate the Certificate? ( eg : Godaddy to ACM) Q: Where are the certificates stored? Q: Do you know certificate architecture in general? Explain it. Q: Explain how the client authenticates with a server? Q: Terraform vs Ansible ? Why did you choose Terraform? Q: Live coding: Fibonacci series for first 30 numbers. Any language.

HR round --------------- 1. Explain about the current job 2. Tools and technologies being used currently 3. Salary expectation 4. why resign from your current job? 5. what do you want to learn/do here? 6. how soon you can join? 7. what's the microservice architecture? 8. what's service discovery? 9. what are the different types of deployment strategies? 10. things that you automated recently 11. scripting languages known 12. AWS knowledge? scale 1-5? 13. what Cloud technologies you know? 14. Migration experience from on-prem to the cloud? Tech round --------------------- I don't remember the questions or sections well. But it covers AWS, Behavioural questions, Linux, Docker, one Python debugging round, video recording justifying how your knowledge help the company
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Devops Engineer

Interviewed at AUTO1 Group

3.1★
Jan 6, 2022

HR round --------------- 1. Explain about the current job 2. Tools and technologies being used currently 3. Salary expectation 4. why resign from your current job? 5. what do you want to learn/do here? 6. how soon you can join? 7. what's the microservice architecture? 8. what's service discovery? 9. what are the different types of deployment strategies? 10. things that you automated recently 11. scripting languages known 12. AWS knowledge? scale 1-5? 13. what Cloud technologies you know? 14. Migration experience from on-prem to the cloud? Tech round --------------------- I don't remember the questions or sections well. But it covers AWS, Behavioural questions, Linux, Docker, one Python debugging round, video recording justifying how your knowledge help the company

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