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The most difficult questions honestly revolved around my experience as an enterprise staff member, and how ready or willing I was to work in a startup atmosphere. It's not for everyone, and I really appreciate the line of questioning that was open and honest about what to expect.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Valimail

4.3
Apr 29, 2019

The most difficult questions honestly revolved around my experience as an enterprise staff member, and how ready or willing I was to work in a startup atmosphere. It's not for everyone, and I really appreciate the line of questioning that was open and honest about what to expect.

Case Interview: * What would be your business case to Capital One for moving to the public cloud? * Given a diagram of a basic login service running on-prem, how would you migrate it to the cloud? How would you make it more robust and not prone to errors? What about making this service available on a global scale? * Given the following numbers and usage pattern, what size instance would you use in your autoscaler to optimize the cost of the service during its offtime, while still having enough capacity to handle the peaks.
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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Capital One

5
Apr 11, 2023

Case Interview: * What would be your business case to Capital One for moving to the public cloud? * Given a diagram of a basic login service running on-prem, how would you migrate it to the cloud? How would you make it more robust and not prone to errors? What about making this service available on a global scale? * Given the following numbers and usage pattern, what size instance would you use in your autoscaler to optimize the cost of the service during its offtime, while still having enough capacity to handle the peaks.

As an engineering candidate you should have both breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise in your field, so come prepared and be ready to think on your feet and work through whatever they throw at you. Pay attention to the preparation info provided by your recruiter/coordinator. Ask clarifying questions to have a better idea of what topics you should focus on, then put in the time to actually study.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Nuro

4.2
Jul 24, 2019

As an engineering candidate you should have both breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise in your field, so come prepared and be ready to think on your feet and work through whatever they throw at you. Pay attention to the preparation info provided by your recruiter/coordinator. Ask clarifying questions to have a better idea of what topics you should focus on, then put in the time to actually study.

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