2-5 years experience ~3.5 hours 8 Topics
Checklist covers SLOs and error budgets, Observability, Incident management, Reliability patterns, Capacity and performance, Kubernetes and cloud
This pack is for Mid-Level SRE interviews.
Each item should take one or two sentences to answer. Mark any you cannot answer and study them.
Q1. Walk me through setting up SLOs for a new service from scratch. Start from users, not from metrics.
Q13. Explain timeouts, retries and deadlines across a chain of services.
Q25. How do you design logging so it helps in incidents without costing a fortune?
Scenario 1: A Fast Burn Page on the Checkout API The Prompt You are on call. A page fires: "Checkout API error budget burn rate 16x over 1 hour".
Prepare short STAR stories for each. For more practice, see the Behavioral and Leadership bank at /interview-prep/behavioral-leadership. B1.
These figures are indicative annual ranges in lakhs, and they vary a lot by company, city and market. Use them as a rough guide, not an offer.
This pack is for Mid-Level SRE interviews.
Each item should take one or two sentences to answer. Mark any you cannot answer and study them.
Q1. Walk me through setting up SLOs for a new service from scratch. Start from users, not from metrics.
Q13. Explain timeouts, retries and deadlines across a chain of services.
Q25. How do you design logging so it helps in incidents without costing a fortune?
Scenario 1: A Fast Burn Page on the Checkout API The Prompt You are on call.
Prepare short STAR stories for each. For more practice, see the Behavioral and Leadership bank at...
These figures are indicative annual ranges in lakhs, and they vary a lot by company, city and market.
Roles this pack prepares you to interview for.
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Rs 14L - Rs 28L a year
Platform Engineer
Rs 15L - Rs 30L a year
Not a software engineer sheet. Every problem comes from real DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud interviews, from your first script to a system you build yourself.
Open the Coding SheetIt is for engineers with about two to five years of experience who run services in production, take part in on-call and want to move up to owning SLOs, incident response and reliability design.
The Junior pack covers fundamentals and basic troubleshooting. This pack goes deeper into SLO design, burn rate alerting, capacity, failure patterns and safe change. The Senior pack adds architecture and leadership.
Some of the questions use Kubernetes and Prometheus as examples because most SRE teams run them. The reasoning applies to any stack, and each answer explains the idea before the tool.
Read the prompt, write down your clarifying questions, and talk through your plan out loud before reading the ideal solution. Compare your order of actions with the one given.