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The questions were easy enough. I take issue with the tech challenge however. A 40 hour tech challenge (they say 2 hours a day for a week but for the task it is much more than that, unpaid of course) doing something 100% unrelated to the typical job experience. The question I had was, design a restful api service that can handle any scale of security events, scan them against a database that changes all the time. Design and build the storage, restful api, backend service, secret management, infrastructure-as-code, etc. for the entire microservice architecture. They want a production grade micro service and cloud architecture, complete with tracing, monitoring, logging, scaling, etc. etc. etc. Remember, this is an infrastructure job, and you are supposed do it in "8 hours or less".
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Senior SRE

Interviewed at Auth0

4.3
Nov 16, 2020

The questions were easy enough. I take issue with the tech challenge however. A 40 hour tech challenge (they say 2 hours a day for a week but for the task it is much more than that, unpaid of course) doing something 100% unrelated to the typical job experience. The question I had was, design a restful api service that can handle any scale of security events, scan them against a database that changes all the time. Design and build the storage, restful api, backend service, secret management, infrastructure-as-code, etc. for the entire microservice architecture. They want a production grade micro service and cloud architecture, complete with tracing, monitoring, logging, scaling, etc. etc. etc. Remember, this is an infrastructure job, and you are supposed do it in "8 hours or less".

Technical HR: questions about your project and tech stacks on your Resume. HR: Behavior questions, what's the biggest challenges and accomplishments for your past work experience, why Circle etc. 3 Hour technical interview pipeline: Python pair programming: With a received json response string curled from a pre-defined URL end point, extract the useful information from it, making a unit change and add some string manipulation to the results, do a sorting and some math around the extracted numbers and return them. Hint: It's a json result about crypto currencies. Docker hands-on interview: Given pre-defined web server files written in go, build images and containers and to make the web server to connect and work with postgres database successfully. Hint: You need to figure out how to configure it properly to make the server talk to the postgres System design: Design a report generation system, with it's own PDF generation functionality , anyone can download it. Hint: needs to be scalable, think about AWS related technoligies and how to apply those into your design.
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Senior SRE

Interviewed at Circle Internet Financial

4.3
Feb 16, 2023

Technical HR: questions about your project and tech stacks on your Resume. HR: Behavior questions, what's the biggest challenges and accomplishments for your past work experience, why Circle etc. 3 Hour technical interview pipeline: Python pair programming: With a received json response string curled from a pre-defined URL end point, extract the useful information from it, making a unit change and add some string manipulation to the results, do a sorting and some math around the extracted numbers and return them. Hint: It's a json result about crypto currencies. Docker hands-on interview: Given pre-defined web server files written in go, build images and containers and to make the web server to connect and work with postgres database successfully. Hint: You need to figure out how to configure it properly to make the server talk to the postgres System design: Design a report generation system, with it's own PDF generation functionality , anyone can download it. Hint: needs to be scalable, think about AWS related technoligies and how to apply those into your design.

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