Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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Q: What was one thing that they asked you? A: They asked me to explain how I would handle a situation where an application is running fine but suddenly starts consuming too much memory. How did you answer this question? A: I explained the steps I would take, such as identifying the root cause using monitoring tools, checking logs, and analyzing recent changes to the system. I also discussed scaling options and optimizing the application's memory usage. Q: How do you ensure high availability in a distributed system? A: I discussed techniques like load balancing, redundancy, failover strategies, and regular health checks to detect issues early and minimize downtime. Q: How do you handle on-call responsibilities during outages? A: I explained my approach to troubleshooting by prioritizing tasks, using alerting systems, and ensuring proper communication with the team to resolve issues as quickly as possible.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at PhonePe

4.1
Oct 11, 2024

Q: What was one thing that they asked you? A: They asked me to explain how I would handle a situation where an application is running fine but suddenly starts consuming too much memory. How did you answer this question? A: I explained the steps I would take, such as identifying the root cause using monitoring tools, checking logs, and analyzing recent changes to the system. I also discussed scaling options and optimizing the application's memory usage. Q: How do you ensure high availability in a distributed system? A: I discussed techniques like load balancing, redundancy, failover strategies, and regular health checks to detect issues early and minimize downtime. Q: How do you handle on-call responsibilities during outages? A: I explained my approach to troubleshooting by prioritizing tasks, using alerting systems, and ensuring proper communication with the team to resolve issues as quickly as possible.

Questions include shell scripting, writing simple script in python to work with data structures, commands to query DNS, commands to retrieve information about local processes, questions about deep knowledge of HTTP protocol.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at MZ

3.2
Jul 16, 2017

Questions include shell scripting, writing simple script in python to work with data structures, commands to query DNS, commands to retrieve information about local processes, questions about deep knowledge of HTTP protocol.

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