Senior DevOps Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Toptal with 5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 38.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Toptal as a Senior DevOps Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Drug test: 33%
Presentation: 33%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Toptal in Jul 2020
Interview
The interview process has four well defined steps. At each step the interviewer was very professional.
I initially failed one of the steps and I have received very good feedback from the interviewer i.e. he recommended me focus areas for improvement. When I came back I was asked many similar questions. Though, make no mistake the questions are quite open ended and the interviewer expects a lot from you.
The interview process is really tough and requires a lot of preparation. I prepared for one year after my initial failure.
The first step is a generic HR interview.
The second step is a written exam on hackerrank. Lots of linux and some programming.
The third step is livecoding in front of a senior developer. Lots of distributed systems design questions. A few coding tasks.
The fourth step is a take home project. The scope is quite extensive and it required full time effort for two weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots od linux commands and distributed systems architecture