Site Reliability Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at New Relic with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Site Reliability Engineer roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at New Relic overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at New Relic as a Site Reliability Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 21%
One on one interview: 21%
Drug test: 14%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Other: 7%
Background check: 7%
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I applied online. I interviewed at New Relic (Portland, OR) in Oct 2015
Interview
After submitting my application online, I was contacted the same day by the hiring manager. We set up an informal interview over coffee for later that week. Meeting in person was a fantastic experience. I gathered that the managers really care about their employees and their happiness. This was really appealing to me. I was then asked to do a short code challenge which was pretty standard. The day after turning it in, I was offered to come in for an on site interview. That interview was grueling and lasted from 9am to about 4pm. I met with about 5 different people and included two different coding type challenges. Ultimately, I was not offered the position, but the reason was reasonable and very well stated. I was told to apply for other jobs in the company and to contact the the guy I'd interviewed with so he could recommend me. I responded to this email asking for specifics on how I could improve my skills for next time and got back a detailed response. All in all, though exhausting, I had a great experience. They are a company I really want to work for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe how you would handle the situation where you are given more work for the day than you have time to complete.
I applied online for a Site Reliability Engineer position and was contacted to setup a phone screen for a different position than the one I applied to. Although I didn't feel the new position they were pushing was a good fit, I did schedule the phone screen nonetheless. Shortly after speaking to them, they emailed me and let me know they were proceeding with other candidates. I found it frusterating that they wasted my time in the first place.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at New Relic (Barcelona) in Jan 2018
Interview
Initial phone screen + 1:1 video call with manager + coding challenge + (3x) onsite meetings with team members + (2x) 1:2 video call with remote team members + 1:1 video call with manager + final phone call with job offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
We talked about monitoring, alerting, orchestration, capacity planning, on call rotations, availability, scalability, HA, automation, CI/CD and many more things related to SRE and DevOps.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at New Relic (Portland, OR) in Jul 2016
Interview
Early in the process, I had phone screens with the recruiter and hiring manager. The on-site interview consisted of several one-on-one sessions with various employees. Each session was 30-45 minutes, and with an hour for lunch, the entire day on-site was about 5 hours.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Most of the questions were about my experience with various technologies, tools, and protocols.