Recently interviewed for SRE role at NetApp.

Status: 4.3 years experience SRE/Devops
Current Position: SRE at XYZ
Location: Bangalore
Date: December, 2024

Recruiter reached out on Linkedin, first tech round was scheduled.

Round1: (60 mins, Tech)

• First time the panel didn't show up and the HR person did not even bothered to inform me. This was after i had confirmed with them few hours before interview whether the interview will happen today or not.
• Round got rescheduled approx after a week.
• Questions were as follows,
• snippets of bash and python code to explain their meaning and output
• How stateful sets differ from deployements
• What is a namespace in kuberenetes, what is its significance ?
• Question Taints and tolerations
• How to ensure different replica/pod for a deployment are running on different nodes on cluster ?
• What to do if terraform state file gets deleted.
• Nginx rate limiting
• Helm install vs helm upgrade —install
• How helm works ? Explain
• Nginx and ingress controller
• CDN, rate limiting, DDOS, DNS, etc flow
• Certificates , how they work in Kubernetes.

I was able to fairly answer most of questions, round went decent.

Round 2: (in office round)

• HR person reached out for next in office interview round, i told them give some time to let me know my available slots. Post that HR has ghosted.

Key Takeways:

• Really poor TA culture
• Never waste your leaves or time on any company that do not respect your time.

If anyone has faced these situations with NetApp, please let me know as it's the first time facing such an issue.

#Netapp #NetappIndia #Bangalore #PoorTA