Sharing my recent interview breadown for a DevOps Engineer role at Siemens, in case it helps anyone prepping for something similar.
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Round 1 — Video call (Technical), 60 min, Medium difficulty
Started with DevOps basics and gradually moved into Docker and Linux:
What is Continuous Testing (CT)?
How does AWS contribute to a DevOps workflow?
What is a Docker image registry?
What are the core components of Docker?
Walk through the lifecycle of a Docker container.
What is LVM, and why is it needed?
What does “load average” mean in Linux?
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Round 2 — Video call (Technical), 60 min, Medium difficulty
Opened with a quick self-intro, then moved into Git, Docker, and Kubernetes:
What’s the command to delete a Git branch?
What do you know about git reflog?
Difference between git revert and git reset?
Explain the difference between CMD and ENTRYPOINT in Docker.
How do you monitor a Kubernetes cluster?
What is Kubernetes load balancing?
Explain Jenkins’ architecture.
Round 3 — HR, 30 min, Easy
Behavioral: “Tell me about yourself,” and “Why do you want to join this company?”
✅ I’ve been through 40+ SRE/DevOps interviews over the last few years — from top startups to FAANG companies — and I started noticing patterns in the questions
