Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 7 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Red Hat (Remote, OR) en jun 2018
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I was first contacted by a recruiter from the company. They proposed me 3 differents positions. The recruiter told me the position I prefered was a very exciting position where everything needed to be invented. Then she told me I had to apply on their website in order to continue the process. She also told me I will be contacted by another person. 10 days after I applied they told me I will be contacted by this second recruiter. After a week without news, I contacted them again. They apologize because the person was on vacation and they transfered me to a 3rd person who asked me my availabilities for an interview with the hiring manager. After I sent this, a 4th person send me an email to confirm my interview with the wrong date. I mentioned this on the mail. I've never had an answer from this person but finaly got the interview with the date I mentionned. I had 1 hour interview with a guy who did not ask me any technical questions. He explained me that open source work is very messy and that was normal that I could not run the project on my computer as it may have some issues with the documentation. After I showed him what I've worked on lately, he told me that there was another project I may be interested in but unfortunately with no more information. At the end of the interview, he told me I should not be frustrated or disapointed if I would not be selected for the next steps as there was a lot of experienced people applying for this position. He informed me that he will share his report of the interview with the hiring staff and they will get back to me soon.
It has been the worst recruitement process I ever had. I have never seen such a lack of professionalism in all the process! I have not received yet news from them but it does not matter as I will decline it anyway.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en Red Hat (Pune) en mar 2026
Entrevista
I applied on the careers portal, and the recruiter reached out via email. Scheduled the first technical screen for a week, which lasted 15 minutes.
We started with basic introduction first and then there were 3 Java questions which the interviewer had prepared for me to go ahead with.
I answered most of them, covering the breadth and depth of the cases that were asked more in the questions section.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
1. Why do we use the final keyword in Java, and what are its different use cases?
2. HashCode and Equals contract, can you also go dive deep into a place where you might have used it?
3. Difference between Heap and Stack?
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 4 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Red Hat (Pune)
Entrevista
Applied on Naukri, got call from HR, HR asked current salary, I gave a range, HR insisted on giving exact amount, I still gave approx. figure, asked about expected salary, again I tried giving a % hike, insisted on exact figure, again asked if its negotiable.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Interviewer had the energy to ask only 1 question related to Design Patterns
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en Red Hat en ago 2025
Entrevista
The interview process had several stages:
Initial HR screening: set up via email, then a short phone call. Straightforward but very high-level. Communication from HR throughout the process was punctual, though often minimal and sometimes not addressing direct questions.
Hiring Manager call: this was a very positive conversation. Good feeling overall. I was asked some technical questions about how a browser works (request flow, load balancers, etc.), nothing too deep but a good discussion.
Panel interview: with two team members. I walked through my experiences and answered a few technical questions (VPC, Security Groups, Kubernetes cluster configuration). The conversation was engaging and they seemed genuinely happy with my answers and background.
System design interview: this was the most technical stage. I was asked to design a platform to manage access requests to OCP clusters from SRE teams. I completed the design and the interviewer gave me very positive feedback and compliments on my reasoning and approach.
Unfortunately, even with overall positive feedback, I was not selected. The reason given was that another candidate had stronger Azure skills. This felt inconsistent, since the team themselves had explained the role was focused on OCP on AWS, which is where I’m strongest (and this was confirmed during the panel).
Overall impression:
The process itself was structured and the technical conversations were fair and constructive. The experience with the team was very positive. The HR experience was less so, communication was mostly limited to short emails, with little constructive feedback despite the time investment.
In the rejection email, they did share another relevant open position, but it seems it would require going through the entire process again.