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John always completes any assignment on time and to a high standard. He will always willingly and successfully try to do what is required, even if it means performing tasks that are not in the job description or if required to do extra work unexpectedly. Always assured and confident in demeanour and presentation of ideas without being aggressively over-confident. Prioritizes and sequences own tasks and those of other people in the team. Makes sure that the priority tasks are always completed on time. From a set of data, John is able to establish a principle, or work out a rule, or suggest a reason for failure or success. His analysis is always accurate and sometimes original.
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Devops Engineer

Interviewed at Agoda

3.9
Mar 30, 2021

John always completes any assignment on time and to a high standard. He will always willingly and successfully try to do what is required, even if it means performing tasks that are not in the job description or if required to do extra work unexpectedly. Always assured and confident in demeanour and presentation of ideas without being aggressively over-confident. Prioritizes and sequences own tasks and those of other people in the team. Makes sure that the priority tasks are always completed on time. From a set of data, John is able to establish a principle, or work out a rule, or suggest a reason for failure or success. His analysis is always accurate and sometimes original.

Explain your experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Describe a project where you implemented containerization and orchestration. What challenges did you face, and how did you overcome them? Discuss your approach to automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management. Can you walk us through a scenario where you used tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef to automate infrastructure tasks? What benefits did automation bring to the project? How do you ensure the security of the CI/CD pipeline in a DevOps environment? Share your experience in implementing security measures within the pipeline. How do you handle secrets and sensitive information securely during the deployment process? Describe a situation where you had to troubleshoot a complex production issue in a cloud-based environment. What tools and methodologies did you use to identify and resolve the issue promptly? How did you prevent similar issues from occurring in the future? Explain your experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, ELK stack, or Grafana. How do you ensure the availability and performance of systems through effective monitoring and alerting strategies? Share a challenging incident where robust monitoring helped in preventing a system failure. In your opinion, what are the key principles of a successful DevOps culture within an organization? How do you promote collaboration and communication between development and operations teams? Can you share an example of a project where you successfully fostered a DevOps culture and the positive impact it had on the team and project outcomes? Discuss your familiarity with version control systems like Git and your experience with branching strategies, merging, and code reviews. How do you ensure the reliability and scalability of the version control process in a collaborative DevOps environment?
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Devops Engineer

Interviewed at LeverX

4.5
Oct 16, 2024

Explain your experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Describe a project where you implemented containerization and orchestration. What challenges did you face, and how did you overcome them? Discuss your approach to automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management. Can you walk us through a scenario where you used tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef to automate infrastructure tasks? What benefits did automation bring to the project? How do you ensure the security of the CI/CD pipeline in a DevOps environment? Share your experience in implementing security measures within the pipeline. How do you handle secrets and sensitive information securely during the deployment process? Describe a situation where you had to troubleshoot a complex production issue in a cloud-based environment. What tools and methodologies did you use to identify and resolve the issue promptly? How did you prevent similar issues from occurring in the future? Explain your experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, ELK stack, or Grafana. How do you ensure the availability and performance of systems through effective monitoring and alerting strategies? Share a challenging incident where robust monitoring helped in preventing a system failure. In your opinion, what are the key principles of a successful DevOps culture within an organization? How do you promote collaboration and communication between development and operations teams? Can you share an example of a project where you successfully fostered a DevOps culture and the positive impact it had on the team and project outcomes? Discuss your familiarity with version control systems like Git and your experience with branching strategies, merging, and code reviews. How do you ensure the reliability and scalability of the version control process in a collaborative DevOps environment?

lots of probing on behavioral questions and about personal life. Common I dont have a weakness cant you understand that but the manager want to hear that you have , fact of matter is lots of un neccesary probing which is no where related to your work or JD , its like testing the facial expressions or patience of candidate . Pathetic Manager round , too much personal , common its just a Job I am here for, not asking your daughter to marry me . Pathetic again manager round Technical is somewhat fine , questions on CI CD networking LBs Hybrid Scenario , java , application troubleshooting , bash etc
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Devops Engineer

Interviewed at Expedia Group

3.7
Aug 1, 2018

lots of probing on behavioral questions and about personal life. Common I dont have a weakness cant you understand that but the manager want to hear that you have , fact of matter is lots of un neccesary probing which is no where related to your work or JD , its like testing the facial expressions or patience of candidate . Pathetic Manager round , too much personal , common its just a Job I am here for, not asking your daughter to marry me . Pathetic again manager round Technical is somewhat fine , questions on CI CD networking LBs Hybrid Scenario , java , application troubleshooting , bash etc

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