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
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write an Ansible playbook to install Nginx, ensure it starts on boot, and copy a custom configuration file from a Jinja2 template.
#Ansible
#Playbooks
#Linux
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
You need to refactor a monolithic Terraform configuration into reusable modules for different HCLTech clients. What is your approach?
#Terraform
#Modularity
#Enterprise Architecture
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you manage Terraform state files in a team of 20 DevOps engineers working on the same AWS infrastructure?
#Terraform
#State Management
#AWS
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What happens if someone manually deletes an EC2 instance via the AWS Console that was provisioned by Terraform? How do you reconcile this?
#Terraform
#State Drift
#AWS
DevOps Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How do you handle rolling updates across 500 Linux VMs using Ansible without causing downtime?
#Ansible
#Rolling Updates
#High Availability
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