Google SRE virtual on-site interview: Part 1 | How to Prep | Why SRE? | Study Guide

I recently had the opportunity to go through the whole virtual on-site interview at Google for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position, and I want to share my interview story with you.
Part 1
00:00 Intro
00:38 How I got the interview
01:31 Why SRE?
02:06 Scheduling and Planning
03:12 Preparation
03:44 Googleyness & Leadership
04:47 UNIX/LINUX Systems Internals
07:24 Problem Solving & Troubleshooting
09:10 Scripting / Practical Coding
11:52 Non-Abstract Large Scale Systems Design (NALSD)
Reference/Resources
- Hiring Site Reliability Engineers CHRIS JONES www.usenix.org/system/files/l...
- SREcon18 Asia/Australia - Interviewing for Systems Design Skills
By Sebastian Kirsch: • SREcon18 Asia/Australi...
- Jeffrey Dean's talk at Stanford about building Google's S/W and infrastructure, very interesting as well: • Building Software Syst...
- Course: MIT 6.033 Computer System Engineering (Spring 2005), only if you have ample time to prep • MIT 6.033 Computer Sys...
- Course: MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms (Spring 2020) • MIT 6.006 Introduction...
- Non-abstract large scale system design flash cards: cloud.google.com/blog/product...

[@camvigil4]

“You just gotta leetcode the shit out of it” subscribed instantly

[@zptoth]

Best content on SRE Staff Engineer preparation ever. Thanks!

[@mappu7612]

Very good video. Short, crisp and right to the point. Thanks, a lot. Much appreciated.

[@snivy2661]

Thank you for sharing this. I'm a student still and this really built my confidence in the direction I want to go and the topics I should study in

[@Sasheenami]

Thank you for posting this!! Aboutt to have my SRE Interview

[@jinxat]

Thanks for sharing 👍, preparing for an EM SRE interview, so your insight is in big parts very helpful.

[@amartyajha9109]

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot, you don't know I was trying to find out materials like these for the last 1 year, if you can deep dive into each of these subjects even a bit more in the next parts to come than that will be really helpful.

[@johnrehnald]

thanks for the insight

[@irenes7230]

Thank you for sharing your experience. It was really helpful. I also caring one kid, so worried to working sre job..

[@goatyt3010]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!! YOU ARE THE BEST. I WISH I COULD SAY IT IN PERSON

[@fauxz3782]

Nicee

[@MrChris2016]

thiiccc lmao love your blunt personality.

[@namz735]

which book did you mention for Linux, systems, internals?

[@ritesh0313]

Hi, Please share link of google doc as its not visible.

[@trijit96]

Was the track SRE-SE or Sre-swe

[@iristhevirus]

SRE-SE

[@plop799]

what level?@@iristhevirus

[@asutoshpanda1508]

Had a question, why did the recruiter contacted you? What was there in your profile? Could you please guide a little

[@iristhevirus]

I honestly don't have an answer to that, I wish I did but I think that kind of info is usually very carefully guarded by recruiters...

[@lindahewlett898]

Hi Iris..would you have time to speak with me for 10 min? Would love your guidance ...

[@trijit96]

Which is most intimidating, let me guess NALSD?

[@iristhevirus]

For prep, Linux internals was very overwhelming for me, b/c of the sheer amount of material to cover

[@trijit96]

@@iristhevirus and for interview? The one that stopped your heart almost?

[@iristhevirus]

@@trijit96 I'll have a second part of the video up for the actual interview day ;)

[@abhilashgundlapally]

unable to hear your voice it is muted ?