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- When did you get introduced to DevOps? The recruiter couldn't define what DevOps was for him, the question wasn't about just tools (which is good), but it felt that DevOps as a principle of automating everything and providing infrastructure to development teams wasn't the expected answer. - There was a question about data processing pipelines. My understanding that it was about using SQL vs NoSQL databases for storing data, but I could be wrong. - The question about preferable authentication and authorization mechanism for a bunch of services interacting with each other. During that question, I think, the interviewer mentioned OAuth. I have a feeling that my answer about JWT tokens was not satisfactory. But OAuth is not great for services interacting with each other, it is more for a user to grant some service access to own data in another service, but the interviewer didn't mention such user-service interactions.
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Autodesk

4★
Feb 19, 2025

- When did you get introduced to DevOps? The recruiter couldn't define what DevOps was for him, the question wasn't about just tools (which is good), but it felt that DevOps as a principle of automating everything and providing infrastructure to development teams wasn't the expected answer. - There was a question about data processing pipelines. My understanding that it was about using SQL vs NoSQL databases for storing data, but I could be wrong. - The question about preferable authentication and authorization mechanism for a bunch of services interacting with each other. During that question, I think, the interviewer mentioned OAuth. I have a feeling that my answer about JWT tokens was not satisfactory. But OAuth is not great for services interacting with each other, it is more for a user to grant some service access to own data in another service, but the interviewer didn't mention such user-service interactions.

1. Tell me about a significant disagreement you had with your manager or peers or direct reports 2. Tell me about a time you did not agree on the a project you were asked to implement 3. How did you convince the management for one of the challenging projects? 4. Tell me about a feature that you implemented where the customer requirement wasn't very clear 5. Tell me about an improvement you made after the system was up and running
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Aug 18, 2021

1. Tell me about a significant disagreement you had with your manager or peers or direct reports 2. Tell me about a time you did not agree on the a project you were asked to implement 3. How did you convince the management for one of the challenging projects? 4. Tell me about a feature that you implemented where the customer requirement wasn't very clear 5. Tell me about an improvement you made after the system was up and running

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