The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the difference between AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB). Which would you use for a high-throughput gRPC service?
#AWS
#Load Balancing
#Networking
#gRPC
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Explain how VPC peering works and the challenges of managing overlapping CIDR blocks in a large enterprise.
#AWS VPC
#Networking
#Routing
#Transit Gateway
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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easy
Explain the difference between an Ingress controller and a LoadBalancer service in Kubernetes.
#Kubernetes
#Networking
#Ingress
#Load Balancing
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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easy
How does DNS resolution work? Explain the difference between an A record and a CNAME record.
#DNS
#Networking
#Protocols
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the TCP 3-way handshake and how you would troubleshoot dropped packets between two microservices.
#TCP/IP
#Troubleshooting
#Packet Analysis
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What happens exactly, from a network and systems perspective, when a user navigates to adobe.com?
#DNS
#TCP/IP
#TLS
#Load Balancing
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Describe the packet flow from a user's browser to an application hosted on an AWS EKS cluster behind an Application Load Balancer.
#AWS
#EKS
#ALB
#DNS
#Networking
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