Apple SRE/DevOps Engineer interview questions

The interview process typically starts with an initial recruiter screen to go over experience, motivation, and alignment with the USDS team’s goals. That’s followed by technical interviews — usually one or two rounds — where I’ll be asked about infrastructure automation, Linux, networking, observability, and reliability scenarios. Next comes a panel or manager interview focused on problem-solving, cross-team collaboration, and incident management experience. Finally, there’s a culture-fit or values discussion, which focuses on TikTok’s principles like collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence.

Was ok, pretty difficult and a lot of steps in the process, and it took a while to recover an answer back. I think it was around 2 weeks until I heard back