I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Toptal in Sep 2021
Interview
Stage 1: Call with HR. Asked about Roles,Technologies
Stage 2: Coding challenge of 1 hour. Contains basic Linux questions, Terraform questions and AWS questions. Also 2 tasks to write a simple script and do a Git commit related activity.
Stage 3: Technical Interview . He has asked about Kubernetes , Ansible, Docker, Terraform, Ansible related questions . Also given me a coding challenge in python (we can choose our language) to complete in 10 minutes.
In my case, the technical round went well but coding in 10 minutes was impossible for me and can't google.
The interviewer was really awesome and updated me can't proceed further as I have failed to complete coding challenge. He also given advice me how to improve the coding skills and advised me to try in 3 months.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Highly available infrastructure for a heavy traffic shopping website.
2.Idempotent modules in ansible.
3. How to reduce docker image size.
4. Difference between different LBs in AWS.
5. Kubernetes: Secrets, RBAC, Liveness & Readiness Probe. etc.
Many questions were there, can't remember fully.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Toptal (Belgrade) in Apr 2019
Interview
Passed only 1st phase, will update here when have more info.
1st phase, Bluejeans video call with a HR person. Quite easy and passed with no problem.
Interviewer introduced the Toptal company and the way it works and asked usual HR questions.
Take care to be on time on the interview and that you have video camera, microphone and speakers working properly.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Introduction from the interviewer and general HR questions...