Common interview questions and answers
Interviews are about discovery, and questions stand as the tool to bring to light the experience and skill set a candidate and potential employer have. We’ve separated the questions into technical, non-technical, and one final group of insightfully odd questions meant to dive in and retrieve specific answers while, on the surface, they seem odd and even useless.
Technical questions
Long gone are the days of simple questions and answers in the technical space. The technical skill set requires a larger and larger understanding of systems, not just components. For an SRE, this is even larger. These are some of our most popular question topics.
How HTTPS works
The transactions required to submit and retrieve data over an encrypted system are rather complex, requiring multiple calls back and forth between the end user and the target system or systems.
For this answer, I’m not so much interested in certificate revocation...
