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.

general Linux sysadmin questions (*nix permissions model, config management, immutable flag, source control), web hosting specific things (Apache, MySQL, Python/Django). Expect some hard / non-obvious ones- Mozilla tends to hire strong.

Web Operations Engineer

Interviewed at Mozilla

2.8
May 23, 2016

general Linux sysadmin questions (*nix permissions model, config management, immutable flag, source control), web hosting specific things (Apache, MySQL, Python/Django). Expect some hard / non-obvious ones- Mozilla tends to hire strong.

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