Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

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let’s say a pod is monitored by Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) configured to scale out when memory usage reaches 80%. But before the HPA can spin up new pods, the existing pod's memory usage hits 100%. In this situation, what will happen to the pod? And how will the HPA behave or respond?
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Site Reliability Engineer II

Interviewed at Zeta

3.3
Jul 25, 2025

let’s say a pod is monitored by Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) configured to scale out when memory usage reaches 80%. But before the HPA can spin up new pods, the existing pod's memory usage hits 100%. In this situation, what will happen to the pod? And how will the HPA behave or respond?

Both interviews were based on DevOps questions and nothing SRE related. No conversation about Toil, Error budgets, troubleshooting, the system design part was DevOps too, I bet he doesnot have much experience with troubleshooting real world distributed systems.
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Site Reliability Engineer

Interviewed at Veeam Software

3.8
Jul 15, 2025

Both interviews were based on DevOps questions and nothing SRE related. No conversation about Toil, Error budgets, troubleshooting, the system design part was DevOps too, I bet he doesnot have much experience with troubleshooting real world distributed systems.

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