Tell me about your work experience: why did you leave [company] and move to [bank]?
DevOps
Explain the main differences between REST and SOAP architectural styles when implementing web services.
41. What can cause memory leaks in JAVA applications? * - Improper object management in the heap; - No garbage collector usage; - Incorrect use of static variables; - Excessive use of recursive functions; - Incorrect use of constructors; 42. Types of memory leaks in JAVA applications? * - Through unclosed resources; - Using incorrect data structures; - Incorrect use of garbage collector; - Incorrect use of data streams; 43. What is Docker? *
Why is a startup probe needed when starting a heavy Java application? What timeouts should be set?
How do you act when you discover a slow query?
Which secret manager do you use on-premises?
Describe the request path from Ingress to pod. What components are involved?
Which non-idempotent Ansible modules do you know?
Did you work with Kafka only as a user, or did you also have to administer/scale/monitor it?
Have you had experience conducting technical interviews or mentoring employees?
What are the disadvantages of long transactions in terms of service, DBMS, and Kafka reading?
Are you familiar with Ansible? What have you used?
What is the minimum set of entities needed in vanilla Kubernetes for a component to start and be able to accept incoming requests?
What does the time in Steal Time mode mean for the CPU?
Tell us about your career path and professional experience
Candidate's questions to the company (processes, roadmap, project stability, candidate's expectations)
Does Prometheus collect traces or something else? What is it used for?
Tell about Dockerfile optimization — what tuning was done?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the helm upgrade command for updating releases?
What is partitioning in databases?