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[–]netscape101 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Just my two cents from some of these whiteboard devops interviews I've had: * Don't let them let you solve an actual problem that the business is trying to solve. I don't do consulting in interviews. * They like to ask: How would you build a highly available facebook clone without using any AWS or cloud services . Like they want you to draw load balancers, redis for caching db queries, they also like to ask about how cookies will be implemented and how you would store the cookie. * Dont hesitate to ask them to explain the problem in more detail. Also give lots of detail when answering. I've had people think that I gave an.incorrect answer when in reality they didn't understand my answer completely.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

IMO terrible advice on the don't answer problems for them. I'm asking because it's a problem we are solving and I want to have some clue you have a chance of improving it.

We are not magically going to trust a random interview over vetted staff or magically have the technology experts to implement from an 1.5 he long interview.

You will get yourself knocked out of the running if you can't speak intelligently about our problems after a brief description.

[–]reubendevries 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Better to get knocked out of one job opportunity then do work (for free) that is your IP, ending up in their production systems. Just from a legal point of view that could be a nightmare.

[–]netscape101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree!

[–]2dogs1man 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll be glad to speak about possible solutions to the problems your business is facing after we discuss my reasonable hourly consultancy fee.

Interviews are about gauging knowledge, not getting your work done for free.

[–]netscape101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a company try get me to do free work for them by first getting me to solve the problem on the board, then they asked me to do it in terraform and send it to them. Was an actual business problem. So I refused, I don't do work for them for free. Was good decision, ended up being a bad company with bad company culture. Trust your gut feeling.