A Postmortem of SRE Interviewing
summary
Applied to 37 companies and runs 113 interviews over 2.5 months, getting 12 non‑responses, 12 on‑sites and 8 offers; recommends clear timelines, standardized modules and 24–48 hour feedback to avoid lose candidates. Uses concrete interview wins like designing a UDP service with scale math and built a Prometheus exporter in 60 minutes, and cites prep tools Grokking, LeetCode, Hackerrank, Levels.fyi plus sample team docs and detailed benefits as actions that actually improve hiring.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:40Introduction: Michael Kehoe
- 3:53A summary of my interviewing journey
- 7:19Behaviors companies should avoid
- 14:09Better interviewing practices - Recruiter screer
- 16:22Better interviewing practices - Technical Interv
- 19:22Better interviewing practices - Manager Intervk
- 22:26Things companies did that blew me away
- 27:53Thoughts on how to prepare for SRE interviews
- 30:25Getting an offer
