Site Reliability Engineering COURSE

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15+ years experience

A typical week at Interview Kickstart

This is how we make your interview prep structured and organized. Our learners spend 10-12 hours each week on this course.

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Get high-quality videos and course material for the upcoming week’s topic

Covers fundamentals, interview-relevant topics, and case studies

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1-hour timed test/assignments covering essential interview questions on the current week's topics

Attend 1-hour sessions that provide solutions and feedback to the current week's assignments

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Attend 4-hour sessions covering interview-relevant SRE concepts

Each class covers a wide variety of interview questions, troubleshooting, and design strategies

Live feedback from the instructors

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Practice problems & case studies

Apply the concepts taught in live sessions to solve assignment questions

Live doubt-solving with FAANG+ SRE instructors

Learn about the hiring process at various FAANG+ companies from the instructors

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Site Reliability Engineering Course details and curriculum

Data structures and Algorithms

Sorting

Introduction to Sorting
Basics of Asymptotic Analysis and Worst Case & Average Case Analysis
Different Sorting Algorithms and their comparison
Algorithm paradigms like Divide & Conquer, Decrease & Conquer, Transform & Conquer
Presorting
Extensions of Merge Sort, Quick Sort, Heap Sort
Common sorting-related coding interview problems

Recursion

Recursion as a Lazy Manager’s Strategy
Recursive Mathematical Functions
Combinatorial Enumeration
Backtracking
Exhaustive Enumeration & General Template
Common recursion- and backtracking-related coding interview problems

Trees

Dictionaries & Sets, Hash Tables
Modeling data as Binary Trees and Binary Search Tree and performing different operations over them
Tree Traversals and Constructions
BFS Coding Patterns
DFS Coding Patterns
Tree Construction from its traversals
Common trees-related coding interview problems

Graphs

Overview of Graphs
Problem definition of the 7 Bridges of Konigsberg and its connection with Graph theory
What is a graph, and when do you model a problem as a Graph?
How to store a Graph in memory (Adjacency Lists, Adjacency Matrices, Adjacency Maps)
Graphs traversal: BFS and DFS, BFS Tree, DFS stack-based implementation
A general template to solve any problems modeled as Graphs
Graphs in Interviews
Common graphs-related coding interview problems

Dynamic Programming

Dynamic Programming Introduction
Modeling problems as recursive mathematical functions
Detecting overlapping subproblems
Top-down Memorization
Bottom-up Tabulation
Optimizing Bottom-up Tabulation
Common DP-related coding interview problems

System Design

Online Processing Systems

The client-server model of Online processing
Top-down steps for system design interview
Depth and breadth analysis
Cryptographic hash function
Network Protocols, Web Server, Hash Index
Scaling
Performance Metrics of a Scalable System
SLOs and SLAs
Proxy: Reverse and Forward
Load balancing
CAP Theorem
Content Distribution Networks
Cache
Sharding
Consistent Hashing
Storage
Case Studies: URL Shortener, Instagram, Uber, Twitter, Messaging/Chat Services

Batch Processing Systems

Inverted Index
External Sort Merge
K-way External Sort-Merge
Distributed File System
Map-reduce Framework
Distributed Sorting
Case Studies: Search Engine, Graph Processor, Typeahead Suggestions, Recommendation Systems

Stream Processing Systems

Case Studies: on APM, Social Connections, Netflix, Google Maps, Trending Topics, YouTube

Site Reliability Engineering/DevOps

Linux and Networking

Memory management in Linux: Deep dive into physical and virtual memory. How kernel interacts with memory? What happens in case of page fault? How to deal with dirty pages?
Handling memory issues:
Getting alerted on DIMM chip failures
Keeping track of used memory
Preparing for OOM events
Getting alerted on memory issues
Discussion on critical interview questions:
What is thrashing?
What kind of memory pages will thrash depending on whether you have swap enabled or not?
How do you tell if a host is computationally-bound or I/O bound?
Deep dive into CPU and processes: Metrics to track CPU performance. Why disk I/O is important?
Crack bash scripting questions: Learn pro tips and trick questions
Get efficient with command line: Pro tips on pipes, Tmux, nc, and file redirection

Containers and Orchestration

Comprehensive coverage of Docker and Kubernetes architecture: Learn how to perform a live upgrade of an application with zero downtime
Deep dive into k8s: Horizontal Scaling, Load Balancing, Crash Protection, Tiered Networking, Resource Control, and Optimization and Security
How to approach common interview questions such as:
Usage of Docker volume for persisting data
How to evaluate systems’ tolerance for failures/outages?
What are the different techniques to scale a relational database?
Application deployment: Local vs. Managed k8s
Kubernetes patterns for designing web applications: Sidecar pattern, Ambassador pattern, etc.
Important questions and pro tips on troubleshooting Kubernetes
How to set customer expectations? Deep dive into Service-Level Objectives and Service-Level Indicators

Deployment & Configuration Management

A top-down view of modern software release: In-depth understanding of how CI/CD works (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment). How automation helps achieve CI/CD?
Deep dive into Jenkins: Installation and configuration, Jenkins Plugins, Blue Ocean & Jenkinsfile, and managing and scaling Jenkins
Comprehensive coverage of critical interview questions:
Jenkins user authentication and security measures?
What happens when the underlying node of a particular job is offline?
Best practices and pro tips in Jenkins node allocation
How to design a system responsible for continuous integration and deployment?
Comprehensive coverage of configuration management: Compare different tools available in the market, their advantages and features
Infrastructure as code: Why, when, how?

Non-Abstract Large System Design

How to design large-scale distributed systems like Google Adwords. Deep dive into the architecture, building blocks of scalable systems, scalability, and reliability
Interesting follow-up questions on the fundamentals of modern software systems: Servers, agents, load balancer, Storage, indexer, consensus, pipeline, queues, sharding, replication, caching, batching, and scatter-gather
Deep-dive discussion of SRE-specific interview questions:
How do SLOs (service-level objectives) impact designs?
How to do capacity estimates?
How to design for fault tolerance?

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Monitoring and alerting: Key metrics and four golden signals (errors, saturation, latency, and traffic)
Derive SLO of a system from SLI and learn how to implement a proactive SLO for an application for alerting purposes
Deep dive into Prometheus, an open-source monitoring tool
Questions on logging and log management:
How to manage logs for various use cases? How to budget for long-term log storage?
Design a logging framework for an organization: Depth of logging, retention, access and audit controls, and encryption
Incident management: Lifecycle of an incident, KPIs like MTTD, MTTI and MTTR, and pro tips for incident management process
Testing for failure: Understand the importance of Smoke tests, Stress tests, Perf tests, etc.
Various troubleshooting scenarios and strategies: Leverage utilities like top, vmstat, iostat, mpstat, netstat, ping, sar, tcpdump, traceroute, dig, nslookup, etc.

Cloud Computing & AWS Services

AWS Compute Services (EC2, EKS, Lambda)
AWS Storage and Database Services (S3, RDS, Aurora, Dynamo and ElastiCache)
AWS Management and Governance services (CloudWatch, CloudFormation)
Networking Architecture‍

Career Coaching

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Resume & LinkedIn Masterclass

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Succeed With SRE Interview Prep

If you are looking to progress your career and land a role as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), then our course is for you. In the industry, reaching such a milestone is a significant achievement, but it’s also very competitive. Getting ahead of the curve by enrolling in one of our courses can ensure that you succeed where others fall short. Read More

No matter where you are on your site reliability engineer learning path, our course is for you. We cover everything you need to know about the SRE interview and how you can stand out among the crowd. From our comprehensive training to our personalized interview prep, you are in safe hands.

Designed and created by hiring managers and employees at FAANG and other tier-1 companies, you’ll gain access to insider knowledge that will give you the edge over other candidates. Because it’s how you translate your skills at an interview that really matters.

A Comprehensive SRE Training Course

Our course stands out among others for a good reason. In our comprehensive SRE course, we teach you the essential skills that will set you ahead on your journey. With Interview Kickstart, you’ll be enrolling on a course that is:

In-depth

Our site reliability engineer course doesn’t just teach you how to nail your interview, it prepares you for a successful career. From system design, data structures and algorithms, to career coaching and salary negotiation, our support goes beyond the interview. We give you the tools you need to get your career off to the best start possible.

Guided

Our experts are always on hand to ensure that you are on the path to success. When you enrol on our course, you will enjoy weekly live sessions run by FAANG and other tier-1 experts, one-on-one support, personalized career coaching and much more. Our instructors have first-hand experience in both starting and building a career as an SRE, and are here to guide you through your journey.

Timely

Our SRE training course is part-time, allowing you to continue to thrive in your existing role while preparing for your next. In just 10 to 12 hours per week, you will learn both the fundamentals about an SRE role and interview-relevant concepts, and how to apply your knowledge in real-life scenarios. In a combination of live sessions and self-learning, you’ll feel interview-ready in as little as 17 weeks.

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Nailing your SRE interview takes more than just skills. Get ahead of the curve with an understanding of both the hiring process and what recruiters are looking for. And that’s where Interview Kickstart comes in. We cover everything from building your resume to teaching interview behavior, ensuring that you know what it takes to stand out among other candidates.

Do you want more information about whether our site reliability engineer course is right for you? Get started by registering for our free webinar today. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

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I joined iK after stumbling across it while reviewing some other interview prep materials after doing poorly in an interview at Linkedin. I knew that doing well in these interviews would require dedication and investment of my time - but with so many resources online I didn't have structure. This is what the IK platform provided me.

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The Interview Kickstart course is very structured and informative. They teach you about DS and algo fundamentals very thoroughly and also prepare you for the software engineering interview. I really like the live classes by FAANG engineers, and the homework and tests definitely help you toprepare for a real interview. If you have been looking for a bootcamp that prepares you for software engineering interviews, I would say this is definitely the right place to do it.

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My experience at IK was extremely positive. I was preparing for FAANG companies using the standard techniques that you find on the internet. When I started preparing, there was no structure to the madness. For example, a simple quicksort can be implemented in multiple ways. So solving a medium problem would take me about 30 minutes. The biggest benefit that I got from IK was a clear, structured way of solving problems. After IK, I could solve medium problems in 10 minutes!

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IK’s back-end engineering program helped me learn helpful nuances in programming and understandthe fundamentals of system design. The instructors from FAANG companies were inspiring. The mock interviews are also very helpful to get exposed to interviewing experience.

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From the interview process and career path to interview questions and salary details — learn everything you need to know about Site Reliability Engineering careers at top tech companies.

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Interview Questions

Career Path

Salary and Levels at FAANG

Frequently Asked Questions

Site Reliability Engineering Interview Process Outline

The interview process at FAANG+ and other Tier-1 companies for Site Reliability Engineering interviews vary a bit for each company. However, the general structure is as follows:

Initial screening: This usually involves a DSA coding question (easy/medium Leetcode questions) and some questions from the system’s domain like Linux, networking, etc.
On-site: 4-6 on-site rounds, which include 1-2 coding rounds, 2 SRE fundamentals rounds, a system design round, usually for senior engineers, and a behavioral round.

IK’s Site Reliability Engineering course will cover all you need to know to nail these rounds.

What to Expect at Site Reliability Engineering Interviews

Initial technical Screening: This usually involves a DSA coding question (only easy/medium LC Questions) and some questions from the systems domain like Linux, Networking, etc. On-site: The on-site interview includes 4-6 rounds. They are:

1-2 rounds of coding

Depending on the total years of experience, candidates go through 1-2 coding (DSA-based) rounds. Usually, the difficulty level of these questions is Leet code easy/medium.

2 rounds of SRE Fundamentals: They test the knowledge of:

Unix/Linux Systems (System Calls, File-Systems, Kernel, etc.)
Networking (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, the OSI Model, Subnetting, and Load Balancing strategies)
Container-Orchestration Systems, Configuration Management (Infrastructure as code), CI/CD
Monitoring, Analyzing, and Troubleshooting Systems. Some companies conduct separate troubleshooting rounds wherein candidates are given a broken system and expected to rectify it.

System design round (usually for senior folks)

In this round, they test the knowledge of designing Scalable Systems focused on the SRE domain – designing and deploying Microservices with health checks/monitoring. Scalable system design requires:

A good understanding of DNS, Load balancing, Micro-service architecture, CAP theorem, Consistency patterns, Availability patterns, Databases, Caching, A synchronism patterns, etc.
Ability to identify the architecture bottlenecks and to dimension the architecture with an appropriate number of machines, with some “back-of-the-envelope” calculations, whilst being robust and failure tolerant.

Behavioral round

In this round, you can expect questions related to:

Teamwork
Job performance
Intelligence & capacity for learning
Time management
Communication skills
Leadership

Check our article on the Google SRE interview process for more information.

Site Reliability Engineering Interview Questions

Let us check some interview questions for Site Reliability Engineers to gauge your interview preparation. We’ll look at Site Reliability Engineer interview questions on coding, system design, domain knowledge, and behavioral skills.

Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions on Coding and System Design

Find the single element that does not appear thrice in a given array of integers

For a given number, find the number of ones in its binary representation. Given nums=[0, 1, 3] return 2

How would you test for a loop in a linked list?

Write code to perform a level order search in a binary tree

Can you use Union in Structure?

Differentiate between bubble sort and quicksort

Reverse a string without using any built-in functions.

Create a technical design of an automated parking solution.

Build a service to handle hundreds of transactions to be executed at specific times of the day.

Design Google Drive.

Design a code deployment software.

Design Whatsapp.

Domain-specific Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions

What are the typical architectures that organizations follow for distributed systems/applications?

What strategy would you use to implement Capacity management?

How does latency affect the throughput of TCP sessions?

Explain readiness and liveness probe. Also, explain three different ways of implementing the health probes.

How do we scale Jenkins for large organizations with a large number of builds & deployments happening every minute?

What is Kernel, and can we modify it?

Your manager approaches you, explaining that the logging solution your company pays a monthly subscription for is getting too expensive, and you need to reduce the storage footprint. How can you approach this problem from the bottom up to ensure you are minimizing the cost of storage while maximizing the effectiveness of your logs?

Site Reliability Engineer Interview Questions on Behavioral Skills

Why our company and why this role? Which of our company’s principles is your greatest strength?

Describe your most complex project.

How would you prioritize work and tasks in a program? Tell me about a time when you had to deal with competing priorities.

Describe a conflict you had with your manager or team member. How did you solve it?

If stakeholders want one thing done one way, but you don’t think that is the right way to do it, how do you move forward?

How would you handle dependencies in cross-functional teams? How do you communicate with other teams?

Talk about your greatest professional accomplishment.

How would you approach a situation where a team member works less than their full potential?

Describe a stressful or challenging work experience you had and how you handled it.

What experience do you have related to this SRE position?

What are your career goals?

What do you think is the most important responsibility of a Site Reliability Engineer?

Site Reliability Engineering Career

Site reliability is crucial in these competitive times. For companies like Amazon, the IT downtime per minute costs thousands of dollars, if not millions. It’s no surprise that SREs are paid so well. Let’s take a look at the SRE job description to get a better idea of what the role entails.

Site Reliability Engineering Job Roles and Responsibilities

Site reliability engineer job qualifications include:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or relevant experience

Experience in coding/automating processes in at least one of these languages – Shell, Go, Python, Scala, Ruby

Ability to produce tools to assist the product development teams. Experience with at least one large-scale web application and at least one Cloud provider

Working knowledge of modern software deployment processes, including CI/CD

Working experience with either Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation templating

Database experience (SQL, NoSQL, etc.) and experience in networking and security.

Hands-on experience in Linux administration and troubleshooting. Experience managing, deploying, and troubleshooting large-scale environments

Strong interpersonal skills – interacts well within the team and across other teams and with users, fast learner, ability to think on your feet

Day-to-day Site Reliability Engineer job description includes:

Deliver tools/software to improve the reliability and scalability of services.

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.

Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

Maintain services once they are live/running by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.

Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Career Roadmap for a Site Reliability Engineer

In a FAANG+ company, the career progression for the SRE role is:

Profile name

Level

Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Staff SRE or Tech Lead/EM

Senior Staff SRE or EM/Director

Site Reliability Engineering Salary and Levels at FAANG+ Companies

We’ve curated FAANG+ Site Reliability Engineer salary data by level for your convenience:

Facebook Site Reliability Engineer Salary

The typical Meta Site Reliability Engineer’s salary is $1,67,452 per year. Site Reliability Engineer salaries at Meta can range from $90,354 to $1,88,395 per year.

When factoring in bonuses and additional compensation, a Site Reliability Engineer at Meta can expect to make an average total pay of $1,67,452 per year.

Site Reliability Engineer salary at Facebook

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

$181K

$127K

$42K

$12K

$258K

$162K

$77K

$22K

$513K

$211K

$270K

$32K

$712K

$238K

$425K

$48K

$777K

$270K

$440K

$67K

Apple Site Reliability Engineer Salary

The average base salary for an Apple SRE is $145,145.

Site Reliability Engineer salary at Apple

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

ICT3

$200K

$140K

$51K

$10K

ICT4

$327K

$191K

$109K

$27K

ICT5

$563K

$230K

$286K

$48K

Netflix Site Reliability Engineer Salary

The average salary for Product Reliability Engineer IV at companies like NETFLIX in the US is $164,390, but the range typically falls between $151,180 and $178,280.

Site Reliability Engineer salary at Netflix

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

Sr. SW. Engineer

$305K

$275K

$14K

Google Site Reliability Engineer Salary

The average base salary for an Amazon SRE is $155,377.

Site Reliability Engineer salary at Google

Average compensation by level

Level name

Total

Base

Stock (/yr)

Bonus

$203K

$141K

$37K

$25K

$282K

$165K

$85K

$32K

$377K

$192K

$143K

$42K

$470K

$219K

$203K

$48K

According to payscale.com, a Site Reliability Engineer’s salary is anywhere between $76,000 to $158,000 a year in the US, with the average salary being $117,768 per year. Let us look at Site Reliability Engineering salary associated with different locations, years of experience, etc.

The average annual Site Reliability Engineer salary based on location:

Boston, MA — $142,458;
New York, NY — $156,971;
San Francisco, CA — $163,479

The average annual Site Reliability Engineer salary based on experience:

Entry-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with less than 1 year experience – $82,637 (includes tips, bonus, and overtime pay)
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 1-4 years of experience – $104,679
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 5-9 years of experience – $121,310
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 10-19 years of experience – $134,942
Senior Site Reliability Engineers with 20+ years of experience – $138,451

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FAQs on Site Reliability Engineer Interview Course

Are SRE in demand and paid more?

Yes, Site Reliability Engineers are in demand as the average cost of IT downtime is huge, ranging from thousands of dollars to millions per minute. Without skilled SREs, the downtime cost would be huge, and IT companies will have difficulty staying afloat in such a competitive market. No wonder SREs are paid well.

Is SRE the same as DevOps?

There is a lot in common, especially when you take into account the underlying objectives; scaling, automating, and bridging a gap between operations and Development.

However, there are some differences between them (the differences have more to do with company cultures as this is a relatively new concept and companies continuously evolving.)

SREs take care of the production environment (It has a mix of both Software Engineers + System admins or engineers skilled in both to resolve real-time challenges in environment / Rectification /Automating or developing a solution to avert the problem and continuous monitoring with the modern open-source or in-build tools. DevOps take care of largely Development & Code deployments, few times in production too. DevOps is again in the mixed skill of both Dev and Operations but more inclined towards development having knowledge of coding roles may be developing a new solution, architect of tools, enhancements, etc.
SRE is more defined as to architect a fully automated IT infrastructure, while DevOps is more of orchestration of an Agile or Lean development team – serving infrastructure as code/tasks to coders when needed.
SRE is more focused on the system engineer role of core infrastructure and it is generally more applicable to a production environment. DevOps on the other hand is a practice used to automate and simplify the development teams and their non-production computing environments.

Is Site Reliability Engineer a good career?

Yes! In the current IT market, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is one of the most highly paid, impactful, and promising job roles.

Is Site Reliability Engineer a good career?

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that services have reliability, uptime appropriate to users’ needs, and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally, SREs keep an ever-watchful eye on the capacity and performance of the system. They write code for optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating repetitive work through automation.

Is Site Reliability Engineer a good career?

SRE is a relatively new field, even though its roots are in traditional DevOps and IT operations. Preparing for SRE interviews can be tougher than prepping for some other IT jobs, as for an SRE, non-technical skills are just as important as tech IQ.

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Why choose this course?

Program designed by FAANG+ leads

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50% Money-Back Guarantee*

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Meet your instructors

Zhuang Liang

A typical week at Interview Kickstart

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Sun

Mon-Wed

Every day

Site Reliability Engineering Course details and curriculum

Sorting

Recursion

Trees

Graphs

Dynamic Programming

Online Processing Systems

Batch Processing Systems

Stream Processing Systems

Linux and Networking

Containers and Orchestration

Deployment & Configuration Management

Non-Abstract Large System Design

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Cloud Computing & AWS Services

Interview Preparation

Resume & LinkedIn Masterclass

Salary Negotiation Masterclass

15 mock interviews

Take classes you missed/retake classes/tests

1:1 technical/career coaching

Interview strategy and salary negotiation support

Register for webinar

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Succeed With SRE Interview Prep

A Comprehensive SRE Training Course

Register for Our Free Webinar to Learn More About Our Site Reliability Engineer Course

Practice and track progress on UpLevel

Mock interviews suite

Get upto 15 mock interviews with hiring managers

Hiring managers from Tier-1 companies like Google & Apple

Domain-specific Interviews

Detailed personalized feedback

Transparent, non-anonymous interviews

1. Flexible schedule

4. Technical and behavioral interviews

2. Remote interview experience

5. Level-specific interviews

3. Feedback documentation

6. Interviewer of your choice

Career impact

Chun Wu

Shrey Shrivastava

Sridhar Gandham

Suat Mercan

How to enroll for the SRE Interview Course?

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A Free Guide to Kickstart Your SRE Career at FAANG+

Interview Strategy and Success

Interview Questions

Career Path

Salary and Levels at FAANG

Frequently Asked Questions

Site Reliability Engineering Interview Process Outline

What to Expect at Site Reliability Engineering Interviews

Site Reliability Engineering Interview Questions

Site Reliability Engineering Career

Site Reliability Engineering Salary and Levels at FAANG+ Companies

FAQs on Site Reliability Engineer Interview Course

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