Senior Operations Engineer Interview Questions

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Recruiter's screen was pretty surface-level, asking about experience. The case study was a set of 'example' tickets and a Q3 roadmap that highlighted real problems that can be seen externally, leading me to question how much they were fake examples versus real tickets. Tickets demonstrated an extremely hostile attitude from IT towards staff which would result in a pretty damaged relationship between the department and those it supports.
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Senior IT Operations Engineer

Interviewed at Clipboard

3.8
Sep 24, 2025

Recruiter's screen was pretty surface-level, asking about experience. The case study was a set of 'example' tickets and a Q3 roadmap that highlighted real problems that can be seen externally, leading me to question how much they were fake examples versus real tickets. Tickets demonstrated an extremely hostile attitude from IT towards staff which would result in a pretty damaged relationship between the department and those it supports.

The SQL questions were high-level queries involving various joins, or a good understanding of set theory. The Python question was relatively straight-forward. There were also questions that revolved around creating a diagram of a system described to you.
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Senior Data Operations Engineer

Interviewed at Dun & Bradstreet

3.8
Jun 3, 2025

The SQL questions were high-level queries involving various joins, or a good understanding of set theory. The Python question was relatively straight-forward. There were also questions that revolved around creating a diagram of a system described to you.

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