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		VirusNewbie on Oct 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliabil... In my G SRE interview, I had to do the same rigorous Software Engineering algorithms rounds as well as show deep distributed systems knowledge in designing highly available systems.

oceanplexian on Oct 27, 2023 [–]

If by rigorous algorithms you mean, spend a month memorizing a few dozen leetcode problems then sure, I’ll agree that is sadly the state of SRE interviews at FAANG.

VirusNewbie on Oct 28, 2023 | [–]

I interviewed at multiple FAANGs and not one of the questions they asked was on leetcode or hackerrank. (I searched afterwords).

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