I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Baker Hughes in Feb 2025
Interview
Three technical rounds all heavily focused on Kubernetes concepts. If you're applying for Devops/Cloud/AWS/Azure/Build engineer roles be prepared for an avalanche of Kubernetes questions. They use K8 on Azure mostly and also use ArgoCD for CI CD, Prometheus for monitoring. The interview experience was nice and professional
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What is SSL termination
2. Making S3 immutable so objects cannot be modified
3. How to protect public facing application
4. Difference between security groups and NACL
5. Difference between network and application load balancer
6. Point in time snapshot
7. Describe Azure CNI overlay
8. How to achieve pod to pod authentication
9. Probes in K8(Liveliness, startup and readiness probes)
10. Workload entities in K8, what are they, how are they used
11. Permissions to a pod so it can write to a storage account in Azure
12. How to ensure a pod never gets killed
13. Preserving the data the prometheus writes to a persistent volume
14. Types of storage class/Dynamic storage in K8
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Baker Hughes (Delft) in Jun 2019
Interview
- Screen call with the recruiter (external company called Arrows Group)
- Motivation/competency on-site interview with Software Engineering Manager and with (Build System) Product Owner
- Culture-fit on-site interview with couple of the engineers from the team (did not happen as I declined after the first interview
How do you handle conflicting priorities? If your colleagues would be constantly queuing at your desk with the problems they need your help with, how would you make sure you main work (project) gets done?