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Interview kit · iv-718

Technical interview: Nina Kowalski

Site Reliability Engineer · Platform

Date
Fri, Oct 23
Time (ET)
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Length
1 h
Where
Video
Status
Scheduled

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM · 1 h

Timing

  1. 2:00 PM5 minIntroHannah Becker
  2. 2:05 PM40 minExerciseHannah Becker
  3. 2:45 PM10 minFollow-ups and trade-offsHannah Becker
  4. 2:55 PM5 minCandidate questionsHannah Becker

Interview kit

Questions by competency

Rated 1–4 on the scorecard

Technical interview: exercises

  • One practical exercise, shared in advance as a topic, not a question.
  • Leave five minutes for the candidate's questions.
  1. 01

    Technical depth

    Knows the fundamentals of their field and when they matter.

    • Go deep on the hardest technical problem in your last role.
    • Which fundamentals matter most in your day-to-day work?
  2. 02

    Problem solving

    Breaks a messy problem down and tests assumptions.

    • Here is a failure we saw last month. How would you narrow it down?
  3. 03

    Systems thinking

    Sees how a change affects the robots, the fleet and the people.

    • How would this change behave with 1,400 robots instead of one?
  4. 04

    Collaboration

    Works through disagreement; explains trade-offs clearly.

    • Tell us about a design disagreement and how it was resolved.
    • How do you explain a trade-off to a customer or an operator?
  5. 05

    Ownership

    Follows problems into the field and closes the loop.

    • Describe a problem you followed from a bug report all the way into the field.
    • What did you do after the last incident you were part of?

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Technical depth
Problem solving
Systems thinking
Collaboration
Ownership
1 Strong concerns2 Some concerns3 Meets the bar4 Exceeds the bar
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