Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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If a request is sent to a specific application and it successfully reaches the pod, but before the pod can respond, it crashes what will happen to that request? How does Kubernetes handle such scenarios, and is the client informed?
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Site Reliability Engineer II

Interviewed at Zeta

3.3
Jul 25, 2025

If a request is sent to a specific application and it successfully reaches the pod, but before the pod can respond, it crashes what will happen to that request? How does Kubernetes handle such scenarios, and is the client informed?

A coding interview, then a take home exercise, then a round of 4 interviews: coding, system design, interview with an engineer to discuss my previous experience, then interview with the hiring manager. All done remotely.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Datadog

4
Feb 9, 2021

A coding interview, then a take home exercise, then a round of 4 interviews: coding, system design, interview with an engineer to discuss my previous experience, then interview with the hiring manager. All done remotely.

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