Senior Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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1. Do you experience in on the call 2. Security of the entire structure. They do a weekly analysis 3. Challenges you faced in an environment 4. Production issues and how you fixed them 5. Do you work late at night if your work requires it? 6. How do you fix production issues? Does anyone see the code fix 7. Did you have interaction with customers? 8. What automation tasks have you completed? 9. Anywhere did you take help from colleagues where you didn’t know what to do?
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1. Do you experience in on the call 2. Security of the entire structure. They do a weekly analysis 3. Challenges you faced in an environment 4. Production issues and how you fixed them 5. Do you work late at night if your work requires it? 6. How do you fix production issues? Does anyone see the code fix 7. Did you have interaction with customers? 8. What automation tasks have you completed? 9. Anywhere did you take help from colleagues where you didn’t know what to do?

troubleshoot the connectivity issue (Layer 2 networking based question) Jumbo frame, MTU concept File system question in Linux, mount, lvresize etc Virtualizaton- Stand switch vs distribution switch, vmotion, HA and fault tolerate, etc
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Nutanix

3.8
Mar 15, 2020

troubleshoot the connectivity issue (Layer 2 networking based question) Jumbo frame, MTU concept File system question in Linux, mount, lvresize etc Virtualizaton- Stand switch vs distribution switch, vmotion, HA and fault tolerate, etc

Talk about a situation where you made a large mistake. How was the mistake discovered? How was the situation resolved? How did you communicate during the situation? What would you do differently if the same thing happened today?
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Senior Software Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at New Relic

3.5
Oct 25, 2017

Talk about a situation where you made a large mistake. How was the mistake discovered? How was the situation resolved? How did you communicate during the situation? What would you do differently if the same thing happened today?

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