Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en EPAM Systems (San Petersburgo, ) en abr 2016
Entrevista
A recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn and asked me if I could be interested in the job. So I said yes, and the process started. It was pretty painful, as my recruiter would re-schedule my two rounds of interviews (one technical, one with a manager) 6 or 7 times. Sometimes she would re-schedule when I was at the office entrance already.
Nevertheless I passed it and told them that I'm okay with waiting for feedback as I have ongoing interviews with another company, and I'd have to have all the information to make any decisions anyway. Well, it turned out that they just completely forgot about me - I didn't receive any kind of feedback for 4 months or so.
Then all of a sudden they reached out to me again and told they'd like to have another conversation. Well, okay, I went there. It was another technical interview, during which I was asked questions based on my most voted-up LinkedIn skills - despite saying that that list doesn't correlate very well with my actual knowledge and skills.
Knowing about 'you forgot about me 4 months ago' situation, they promised to get back in 2 days. It has been two weeks until I got a reject letter stating that I'm underskilled for a senior position. And I'm happy about being rejected, because if a company treats its hiring process like that, I wouldn't count on business processes being well-developed overall.
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Pregunta 1
Ratio of non-tricky to tricky questions was about 50/50.
Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en EPAM Systems (Bangalore Rural) en abr 2026
Entrevista
Had 2 rounds of technical interview. Interviews were tougher side. They asked good questions. Most of them were about recent technologies like kubernetes, terraform, helm, scripting, ci/cd, docker, vault, azure, aws.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en EPAM Systems
Entrevista
Entrevista extremamente mecânica, impessoal, mais de 90 minutos de puro questionário sobre diversos assuntos.
Entrevistador de mau humor, nada cooperativo, só estava interessado em acabar logo com a entrevista.
Perguntas muito específicas para avaliar áreas inteiras de conhecimento, sem interesse nas respostas do candidato além do que eles esperam.
Live coding era extremamente básico mas envolvia ler disco e memória, sem qualquer auxílio de documentação e nem ajuda do entrevistador, se você não soubesse os métodos da biblioteca psutil de cabeça, era reprovado. Uma vez que você tinha aceitado fazer em python não havia como mudar para bash ou mudar o desafio.
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Pregunta 1
What are the physical and virtual components of kubernetes? How does DNS resolution happens step by step in linux? How do you use ansible with secrets and multiple environments?
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en EPAM Systems (Praga) en mar 2026
Entrevista
I applied for a Senior DevOps Engineer role and found the process highly professional, though technically demanding. The technical interview lasted about 90 minutes and was conducted via a dedicated platform; the discussion was deep and focused on real-world scenarios involving GCP, Docker, and advanced CI/CD in GitHub Actions/ArgoCD and other pretty standard tools. I particularly appreciated the high level of professionalism from the interviewers and the subsequent transparency from the recruitment team, who provided detailed and constructive feedback outlining both my strengths and specific development areas such as mTLS security protocols and advanced GitOps workflows. Despite the well-managed process, I ultimately decided to decline the offer because the proposed remuneration was way below my expectations and does not align with current market standards for a senior-level position in this field. I would recommend the process to those seeking a technical challenge, but I suggest ensuring budget alignment early on. Even though I tried to align the budget with the recruiter and the technical feedback was positive, the final offer did not reflect what was initially discussed.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Purely technical 90 minutes of DevOps. From Istio to Grafana, from Ingress patterns to OpenSearch, from Karpenter to GitHub Actions.
