My Cisco DevOps/SRE interview experience|Offer letter,Salary,Interview/Coding Questions & Goodies
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I cleared Cisco interview for Senior SRE position and i have shared Goodies in this video with QNA, answer the below questions from my interview if you can take it as a challenge.
📌𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀/𝗦𝗥𝗘 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝟭𝟬: https://heydevops.in/batch10 [ Project classes starting from this saturday ]
I applied to the all the positions via Linkedin and had the referrals from 4-5 of my friends, anyone I find on Linkedin working with Cisco I used to send them my resume and data.
Fortunately got the call for one of the position
𝐇𝐑 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
In this round the HR started with formal questions and asked my strengths in each area of tools and also gave me a option to select the location from these options like Bangalore or Hyderabad and also informed me that Cisco has a complete WFH policy also.
𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝟏- 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝
You have an S3 bucket where a file is placed and you have to download that file in a container, how will you do?
Can you create the terraform code for having the EC2 instance with EMR setup?
-Write the Docker file to have the httpd container and you need to have the file to be copied from the local to container and whenever the refresh of the url is happening the page should refresh
Write a Python script using boto3 to list all S3 buckets in an AWS account and their respective sizes.
After giving the technical writeup to a 70% of code the interviewer asked me to explain and gave me few cross questions.
𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝟐 - 𝐒𝐑𝐄 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
The interviewer gave me various kinds of elements and asked me to implement the best SRE/Observability practices
Client Load balancer Web tier DB tier Messaging queue SMTP Process and so on
This round went for 1 hour and the discussion was all about the SRE techniques.
𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝟑 - Technical interview
Can you design the Istio Setup for your k8 cluster?
AWS event bridge creation and setup via terraform?
What will be the command to add the annotation and the labels for the existing pod?
Design the kubernetes cluster with Ingress.
A sudden surge in traffic causes a web application to become unresponsive what will be the steps you will take to mitigate
Design the deployment of the pod with replica set set as 3 and having apache httpd image running as a container.
How do you reduce the size of Dockerfile
𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝟒 - 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥/𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥
I was expecting only managerial questions but in this round it was technical 60%+ questions based on DOCKER, JAVA, INFRASTRUCTURE, TERRAFORM etc.
Timecodes:
0:00 - This Video for Fresher/NON IT/ Domain Change
0:27 Cisco Goodies
1:00 How i applied to Cisco [ referral / portal ]
2:15 Round0 - Cisco HR Screening
4:00 Round1- Coding Round Questions/Answers / Scenarios
7:40 Round2 - System Design and SRE
10:00 Round3 - Tools and kubernetes
13:00 Round4 - Managerial / Technical
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