I applied online. I interviewed at LinkedIn (Mountain View, CA) in Apr 2014
Interview
Recruiter emailed me and scheduled a phone call screen. After the phone screen I had a technical screen, which I got feedback on 5 minutes after the interview. There was another round of interviews with two people, one of them was coding on collabedit and the other was theoretical SRE questions. Recruiter let me know I made it to the next round, scheduled a phone call and made me an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of different questions on a lot of different topics. From doing some scripting in Python to how to scale an application to data center sizes.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at LinkedIn (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2022
Interview
1. Hacckerank coding round. ( 2 Easy questions).
2. Recruiter Prescreening call. ( sets up interview)
3. Interview - 45 min Behavioural,
1 hr Technical ( no coding questions)
Basic behavioral interview questions about career, interest, past experiences, achievements, etc.
Technical - questions about Linux CLI inner workings, basic CLI commands test. About System design, problems faced how to overcome challenges when calling applications. Scenario-based questions and discussions, the Senior SRE are helpful during the interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Your application is getting popular and getting million read requests, how will you handle it? follow up - now heavy writes coming in, how will you scale then and keep a consistent state?
100 machines need to sync up data every hour, how will you go about it? explain in detail?
follow up 1-
Low bandwidth, so you cant go with the naive approach.
follow up 2-
cannot go in tree process it will still not complete in time.
