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      DevOps Lead Interview

      Sep 1, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Remote, OR
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

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      I applied online. I interviewed at Close (Remote, OR) in Aug 2018

      Interview

      The interview was on the easy side, with very cliche questions. After interacting for two or three questions it became clear the interviewer was following a script and was not always very acknowledged or prepared on the answers. For a business fully running on the cloud there were more hardware questions than relevant, which sounds like they are no levering the cloud as much as possible. The kind you get at places that run their own hardware like Google or Facebook. Concepts like decoupling, monitoring aggregation, "cattle vs pet", 12 factor apps, were not very familiar to the interviewer. Lot of questions were really irrelevant for the environment and scale they are running. The most ridiculous part was when the interviewer started comparing them-self with Google. It was mostly flexing muscle.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Difference between CPU utilization and load
      Answer question

      Question 2

      How DNS works
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      7y
      Thanks for the feedback! We do ask very technical low-level questions in the first interview to probe the candidate’s knowledge of the underlying technologies that drive our infrastructure. We love of our tech stack (https://stackshare.io/close-io/close-io), all of which is running in AWS. So, we don’t have any hardware to worry about, but we do have to manage all of the EC2 details that might affect our Mongo DBs, K8s clusters or other parts of our infrastructure. There are some Mongo providers out there, but we chose to manage our own clusters due to size/cost and we have been running K8s in production since version 1.4.8 which is way before EKS was offered.