Tech Mahindra
Multinational IT services and consulting company.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
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
When would you choose AWS ECS over AWS EKS for container orchestration?
#AWS
#Containers
#ECS
#EKS
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you manage and secure Terraform state files in a collaborative team environment?
#Terraform
#State Management
#Security
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
One of your Kubernetes pods is stuck in a CrashLoopBackOff state. Walk me through your step-by-step troubleshooting process.
#Kubernetes
#Troubleshooting
#Containers
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain how you would set up a CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins to build, test, and deploy a Dockerized Node.js application to AWS ECS.
#Jenkins
#CI/CD
#Docker
#AWS ECS
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What are the key considerations and steps when Dockerizing a legacy stateful application?
#Docker
#Containerization
#Legacy Systems
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Compare Blue-Green deployments with Canary deployments. In what scenario would you recommend one over the other to a client?
#CI/CD
#Deployment Strategies
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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easy
Explain the differences between ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer service types in Kubernetes.
#Kubernetes
#Networking
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the DRY principle in the context of Terraform. How do you implement it?
#Terraform
#IaC
#Best Practices
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain how Prometheus and Grafana work together in a Kubernetes environment. How does Prometheus discover targets?
#Monitoring
#Prometheus
#Grafana
#Kubernetes
Software Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain CI/CD. How would you set up a basic Jenkins pipeline for a Spring Boot application?
#Jenkins
#CI/CD
#Deployment
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