Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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D&D style scenario, where you have to troubleshoot a broken system. You describe your method of troubleshooting and what tools/commands to run and he will respond with the return value of said tools/commands. The overall point of this interview was to gauge the candidates ability to triage issues that arise.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Apple

4.1
May 8, 2020

D&D style scenario, where you have to troubleshoot a broken system. You describe your method of troubleshooting and what tools/commands to run and he will respond with the return value of said tools/commands. The overall point of this interview was to gauge the candidates ability to triage issues that arise.

interview was smooth he asked very good and basic questions only 1st round was technical what is ssh how it works, tcp vs udp, ip addresses and but it went deep on all topics, basic bash script and then basic python coding thats all it was all basic but remember all things at that time was having some pressure even it was simple things
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Akamai

4.3
Aug 25, 2025

interview was smooth he asked very good and basic questions only 1st round was technical what is ssh how it works, tcp vs udp, ip addresses and but it went deep on all topics, basic bash script and then basic python coding thats all it was all basic but remember all things at that time was having some pressure even it was simple things

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