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      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      Mar 21, 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at CircleCI (London, England) in Jan 2019

      Interview

      Interview process was completely remote, done via Zoom calls. The process took 2 months. I applied online for a remote position as a Site Reliability Engineer. Initially I interviewed with the recruiter, discussed the role, and my experience. Then, I met with the SRE manager. Our discussions went well, so I progressed to a take home test, which took about 2 hours to complete. I then met with another engineer to go over the test, which took about an hour. I then had another interview with 2 other engineers to go through a technical design session, which was another hour. I then met with a product owner for 30 minutes, followed by a final interview with the SRE manager again. Throughout this process I was also having meetings with the original recruiter to discuss the process and receive feedback on my progress. During the process, one thing that through me off was that I was always being asked to meet on times that suited them. As I am in another timezone, I was often having to meet at 9 or 10pm at night. Overall the interview process went very well. In my final discussion with the SRE manager, I was told an offer would be made, and we discussed salary expectations, visa requirements, my current notice period and the fact that he was very keen for me to start and that I should make sure I ask for a salary that would meet my expectations. However, a week later I received a generic email saying that "my skills didn't match". Overall this was very surprising, given that the last discussion I had been told I would be getting an offer, and they were just putting it together. I had a scheduled meeting with the recruiter for that evening, however when I dialled into the meeting he never joined. This was the 3rd time during the process that the recruiter did not join the meeting, claiming technical difficulties. Overall I feel like if this is how they treat their potential employees, then I'm quite glad to have not received an offer.

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      Question 1

      Look at splitting out a monolithic service to deal with scalability and business requirements.
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