I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal in Sep 2021
Interview
Stage 1: Call with HR. Asked about Roles,Technologies
Stage 2: Coding challenge of 1 hour. Contains basic Linux questions, Terraform questions and AWS questions. Also 2 tasks to write a simple script and do a Git commit related activity.
Stage 3: Technical Interview . He has asked about Kubernetes , Ansible, Docker, Terraform, Ansible related questions . Also given me a coding challenge in python (we can choose our language) to complete in 10 minutes.
In my case, the technical round went well but coding in 10 minutes was impossible for me and can't google.
The interviewer was really awesome and updated me can't proceed further as I have failed to complete coding challenge. He also given advice me how to improve the coding skills and advised me to try in 3 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Highly available infrastructure for a heavy traffic shopping website.
2.Idempotent modules in ansible.
3. How to reduce docker image size.
4. Difference between different LBs in AWS.
5. Kubernetes: Secrets, RBAC, Liveness & Readiness Probe. etc.
Many questions were there, can't remember fully.
i want to know more about the interview what are the difficulties the questions , linux questions , docker,k8s , ci/cd
for me the hr interview was very good , the hr was very kind she speak about toptal and ask me about the desire salary
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is your desire salary ?
do you prefer to work remotely ?
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Toptal (Buenos Aires) in Aug 2022
Interview
bash: sum between input numbers.
bash: fibonacci, some input numbers and only 1 outpu.
bash random question, like what $? does? or something related to some commands, like ls or cat. Pretty normal.
Ssr level for linux.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
normal questions they did, I think. Like my weakness.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Toptal in Apr 2022
Interview
The initial interview was pleasant enough and they immediately bucket you into one category. So if you have lots of experience in different areas this is not the company for you. I immediately started to think that this was a robot job-filling company. I was told about a test and every communication was about being on-time – more indicators of way too much automation. I took the test and during the test, I was not given a choice for a language and during the test it restarted. I thought nothing of it. I finished with 10 minutes to spare.
I was given the results over email and my score was extremely low. I asked how can that be I know how to install git and add a commit block and compute Fibonacci – yes compute Fibonacci. No response from Toptal. I then get an email about the second interview with more messages about being on time. I sent them an email telling them about what had happened and guess what. No response. Stay away from this company unless you are just starting out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) 20 or so Questions on Linux
2) Add git to a system and enable a commit check
3) Compute Fibonacci in bash in case there is no other language available or you don't know any other language. After all bash is a perfect language for recursion. ;)
