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      Senior Devops Interview

      Dec 6, 2012
      Anonymous employee
      San Francisco, CA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Zendesk (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2011

      Interview

      I was contacted by the Zendesk recruiter over Linkedin. They setup an interview for me on site after a phone screening with the team lead. Was asked the usual skill questions, "how do you rate yourself on ruby/bash" etc. The onsite interview was about 4 hours. I met with 4 different groups from the tools and devops team. Basic questions like "write me a filesytem monitor in bash". Architecture questions for scaling MySQL over multiple datacenters. Write a Chef recipe from scratch. Parse XML in ruby. Once the technical interviews were over I met with a directory who pretty much laid out the fact they would be making me an offer. I had the offer the very next day.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Writing a chef recipe from memory.
      Answer question

      Zendesk interviews FAQs

      • Senior Devops applicants have rated the interview process at Zendesk with 4 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 49.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Senior Devops roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Zendesk overall takes an average of 28 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Zendesk as a Senior Devops according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:

        One on one interview:  50%

        Phone interview:  50%

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