Understanding of Specific Team/Organization Challenges Questions
At Staff level, you should have done homework on the team and organization. Familiarity with their scale, tech stack, known challenges. Ability to speak to how your experience prepares you for specific problems they face.
HardTechnical
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A product has an SLO of 99.95% but postmortems show recurring 'low-priority' action items that compound. Propose a governance and enforcement model that ensures action items are completed, reduces reliability debt, and ties remediation to business outcomes.
HardTechnical
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Design a mentoring and career development program to grow junior SREs into senior and Staff roles in this organization. Outline curriculum, rotations, core technical and leadership projects, mentorship structures, and measurable promotion criteria aligned to organizational reliability needs.
HardSystem Design
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Design a 12-month SRE roadmap for a mid-size SaaS company you researched: 250 engineers, 150 services, Kubernetes + Postgres, multi-region, 99.95% monthly availability target. Provide SLO tiers, error budget policies, core projects, staffing/training plan, and measurable success metrics for each quarter.
EasyTechnical
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When evaluating a team's SLOs and error budgets from public docs or interview conversations, what signals indicate SLOs are either too lax (not protecting customers) or unattainable (demotivating)? Provide concrete metric patterns, dashboard indicators, and behavior examples you'd look for.
EasyTechnical
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Describe a concise framework you use to map a company's scale (requests/sec, data volume, services count, regions) to SRE priorities. Give a one-paragraph example applying this framework to a startup scaling from 10k to 200k rps.
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