Google SRE virtual on-site interview: Part 1 | How to Prep | Why SRE? | Study Guide

I recently had the opportunity to go through the whole virtual on-site interview at Google for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position, and I want to share my interview story with you. Part 1 00:00 Intro 00:38 How I got the interview 01:31 Why SRE? 02:06 Scheduling and Planning 03:12 Preparation 03:44 Googleyness & Leadership 04:47 UNIX/LINUX Systems Internals 07:24 Problem Solving & Troubleshooting 09:10 Scripting / Practical Coding 11:52 Non-Abstract Large Scale Systems Design (NALSD) Reference/Resources - Hiring Site Reliability Engineers CHRIS JONES https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_june_07_jones.pdf - SREcon18 Asia/Australia - Interviewing for Systems Design Skills By Sebastian Kirsch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swfurPw8c6A - Jeffrey Dean's talk at Stanford about building Google's S/W and infrastructure, very interesting as well: https://youtu.be/modXC5IWTJI - Course: MIT 6.033 Computer System Engineering (Spring 2005), only if you have ample time to prep https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6535748F59DCA484 - Course: MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms (Spring 2020) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63EdVPNLG3ToM6LaEUuStEY - Non-abstract large scale system design flash cards: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/sre-principles-and-flashcards-to-design-nalsd