Focus: demonstrate your foundational skills with multiple-choice questions on Bash and PowerShell scripting, Terraform, and Git - just focus on how these tools work together in real-world scenarios.

Focus: This stage is about getting to know you better - no technical questions - just a conversation to understand your background, motivations, career interests, and preferences.

• Focus: Your technical journey and fit for the role. 
• Introduction: 
  We’ll begin by sharing more details about our company, our product, what the role entails, and the profile we’re looking for. 
• Background & Technical Conversation: 
  Next, we’ll discuss your engineering experience and recent projects, followed by some technical questions to help us assess your readiness for the next interview stage. 
• Q&A: 
  Finally, you’ll have the opportunity to ask us anything about the company, the role, or the process—feel free to prepare any questions in advance! 

Focus: Apply coding and problem-solving skills to real Platform Engineering tasks. Instead of classic algorithm questions, you’ll design and build a small tool or script to automate a common infrastructure or developer task. You can choose to work in Javascript, Python, or Golang—and if you prefer another language, we’re happy to adapt the exercise for you.

We’ll be looking at how you approach problem solving and solution design, the quality and reliability of your code, as well as your communication and testing skills. 

How to Prepare: 

• Plan before coding: clarify requirements, consider edge cases, outline your approach. 
• Write clean, well-structured code: use meaningful names and follow language best practices. 
• Prioritize error handling: think about how your code handles invalid inputs and failures. 
• Communicate openly: explain your reasoning and be open to questions and feedback. 
• Discuss testing: proactively talk about how you’d test and validate your solution, including unit and edge cases. 

Focus: This interview is designed to assess your familiarity with cloud architecture and Kubernetes. While we typically focus on Azure, the concepts and questions can be adapted for AWS or GCP if those are your areas of expertise. 

We usually suggest Excalidraw, but you’re welcome to use any whiteboard tool you prefer.  

Topics: 

Cloud & Infrastructure Design: 

We’ll explore how you would approach a real-world scenario using cloud-native services, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, and DevOps principles. The focus will be on your understanding of cloud platforms, familiarity with IaC, and ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions. 

Scripting & Debugging: 

In this part of the interview, we’ll assess your scripting skills, your ability to follow script logic, and identify improvements. We’re interested in your scripting fluency, experience with DevOps tools, and your analytical approach to troubleshooting and optimizing code. 

How to Prepare: 

• Review cloud fundamentals and architecture patterns. 
• Review infrastructure-as-code concepts and workflows. 
• Refresh your scripting basics and hands-on experience with tools like Docker, environment variables, and SSH. 
• Practice approaching problems methodically and communicating your design decisions clearly. 

Focus: Real-world problem-solving, assessing your skills in technical design, cloud infrastructure, operational maturity, and performance and resilience. 

We’ll use a shared IDE or whiteboard to collaborate interactively—no LeetCode-style puzzles or perfect code required. 

How to Prepare: 

• Review core cloud concepts: know managed services, regions, and availability zones. 
• Be ready to discuss design tradeoffs: consider cost, simplicity, scalability, and performance. 
• Understand infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD basics. 
• Think about operational best practices: security, monitoring, and rollback. 
• Show awareness of performance and resilience strategies: caching, replication, and failure handling. 
• Keep your solutions clear and practical and communicate your reasoning.