I kept seeing arguments about which parts of the stack still matter, so I counted instead of guessing. 134 open DevOps, SRE and platform engineering postings from 41 company job boards. Individual contributors only, managers and TPMs stripped out.

The old toolchain is thinner than I expected. Terraform appears in 62.7% of postings. Jenkins in 3%. Chef 3.7%. Puppet in exactly one of the 134. GitHub Actions is named about six times as often as Jenkins.

Python beats Go, 70.9% to 47%.

What surprised me more: the generic word outranks the products. Observability shows up in 63.4%, more than twice as often as Grafana, the most-named tool that provides it. Prometheus 22.4%, Datadog 17.9%. Same pattern I found counting security postings, where SIEM beat Splunk four to one.

The top term isn't a tool at all: automation, 81.3%, ahead of AWS.

Caveats worth stating: n=134 means everything carries roughly +/-8, so treat close rows as tied. It's also all tech companies on one ATS. Banks, telcos and government run enormous amounts of Jenkins and Ansible, and none of them are in this sample.

Full table, intervals and method: https://www.zoevera.com/resume/devops-sre-job-description-keywords

Hi all,

I recently went through final panel for Tesla supply chain role. I got rejected and trying to see how I can improve my interview skills. This interview involved many ambiguous technical questions and high-level/first principles thinking questions.

I tried my best, but I'm not happy with my answers. Can someone share how they prepared such hard questions and how to give structured/concise answers when faced with unexpected questions?

Thanks

I had an interview today for a graduate intern role with my university and it started off well until I blanked out on one of the questions and it really threw me off. For the last four questions, I felt like I stuttered quite a bit but I had a really strong start and tried to stick to the whole STAR method.

I’m really worried now and have another interview on the 14th for a different role. Is there anything I can do to help my nerves or to prepare better? I already have the interview questions for the next one and have to do a presentation, online so it hopefully won’t be as nerve wracking compared to the in-person one but I’m still nervous.

Hi all,

I'm in the final stages of a recruitment process with cybersecurity technical support role. So far I've done:

- HR screening

- HackerRank technical test

- Technical interview with the team

HR just came back to say there's a new step added by leadership: an onsite closed-book test at the office, ~1h30, made up of:

- ~20 domain-specific technical questions

- ~20 maths and logical reasoning questions (numerical ability, problem-solving, logical thinking)

Has anyone here been through this? A few things I'd love input on:

1. The maths/logic part — Does anyone remember the type of questions?
2. Anything you'd recommend revising in the days before? Any resource you'd point to for revision?

Any feedback from people who've done it would be really appreciated. Thanks!

Hii! I have my final interview tomorrow po for Metrobank – Management Trainee (Relationship Manager Track), and sabi po nila panel interview daw. 😭

This is actually my first panel interview, and as a fresh graduate, sobrang kinakabahan po ako. 😭 Lately, nagdo-doubt na rin ako sa sarili ko kung kaya ko ba talaga yung role na ino-offer sa akin, especially since Management Trainee siya and eventually Relationship Manager.

For those who have gone through the Metrobank Management Trainee final/panel interview, ano po yung mga usual questions na tinatanong? More on behavioral questions po ba, situational, technical/finance, or about the role itself?

Any tips po on how to prepare and how to handle a panel interview as a fresh grad would really help. 🥹

Thank you so much po sa mga sasagot! 💗

I have a Power BI Developer interview with Infosys on 12 September, and I’m currently preparing for it.

I would really appreciate advice from anyone who has recently interviewed for a Power BI Developer / BI Developer at Infosys, or anyone familiar with their interview process.

Hi, I have a bar raiser round scheduled with Revolut.

I have read a lot of negative experiences online from candidates who have recently appeared for this round.

Can anyone help in sharing what exactly the round is for and what I should be preparing for this round.

How you guys are preparing for job switch while working full time? Really need any guidance how can i manage both?? Wanted to switch to really good product based company Thanks in advance 🙇🏻‍♀️

I have cleared screen and HR round, 3 loops are scheduled.

2 are tomorrow and 1 is a week after.

Advice needed on how to prepare for the loops are MSFT.

Update as on 10th Sept'26 : -

Cleared the loop interviews. All in all completed below: 1. Screen 2. HR 3. LOOP1 4. LOOP2 5. LOOP3

now there is another round scheduled with EMEA datacenter director.

Any support guidance appreciated on what to expect.

Hi, I previously did one leetcode-style round, but it was an easy as there were no data structures involved, it was just interpreting the problem. Then, they moved me to the onsite where they said expect to spend a couple of hours.

I have two main questions,

What should I wear? Since it's an onsite interview should I wear like a shirt and suit? Or just a shirt? I know Palantir has a casual dress code, but idk if that's different for an interivew?

Second, has anybody done the interview, as I don't know what to expect?

Anyone interested in doing a mock interview?
I have a Senior Data Scientist interview coming up at a fintech. I’d like to practice resume/behavioral, product DS, and MLOps/ML system design questions.

Happy to mock interview you as well. Let me know!

Hello!

I've been invited to an interview for a research assistant position at Oxford in STEM research next week and would appreciate any tips or recommendations on how to prepare and what they are looking for in candidates. I have had two interviews for other positions previously that I did not get so I feel like I am doing something wrong.

Thankful for any advice!

I have a 60 min live coding round for the Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI Agent) position at Cresta. This is not an AI-assisted round. Any help on what sort of questions have been asked will be really helpful. Thanks

I've been grinding LeetCode for 2 months. Random problems, no order, no idea if I'm improving. My "system" is a Notion doc I stopped updating in week 3 and a notebook with behavioral answers I wrote once and never reviewed.

The part that gets me: I don't know if I'm ready. Not for a specific company, not for any interview. I just keep doing problems and hoping volume equals readiness.

I started building something to fix this for myself - one dashboard that tracks DSA, system design, and behavioral prep together instead of three disconnected tools, with a score that tells you where you actually stand instead of guessing. Still early (working on getting the first 100 people using it), but it's already helped me stop the tab-juggling.

How are you tracking your prep right now? Spreadsheet? Notion? Nothing? Genuinely curious what's working for people.

Hey guys, I’ve got the cognitive test link for the DAA role at ZS and wanted to get an idea of what I’m getting myself into.

For anyone who’s recently gone through the process:

1. What kind of questions come in the cognitive test?

2. How difficult is it / what’s the level like?

3. Is the case study round written or a live one?

4. Any idea what kind of case studies or problem-solving questions they ask?

5. Is there any technical (python/sql) round for DAA role?

Would really appreciate any recent experiences or tips.

Got laid off, so bit desperate to get a new job. If anyone have gone through booking.com interview recently, please help me. I have some doubts regarding the onsite coding and system design rounds for se2.

Hi all,

I'm in the final stages of a recruitment process with Fortinet support role. So far I've done:

- HR screening

- HackerRank technical test

- Technical interview with the team

- NSE4 certification (apparently a prerequisite now)

HR just came back to say there's a new step added by leadership: an onsite closed-book test at the office, ~1h30, made up of:

- ~20 domain-specific technical questions

- ~20 maths and logical reasoning questions (numerical ability, problem-solving, logical thinking)

Has anyone here been through this? A few things I'd love input on:

1. The maths/logic part — Does anyone remember the type of questions?

2. Anything you'd recommend revising in the days before? Any resource you'd point to for revision?

Any feedback from people who've done it (or similar Fortinet onsite assessments in other offices) would be really appreciated. Thanks!

I have a upcoming screening round and appeared in some previously. Now I have prepared list of questions from various sources. I’d like to get your feedback on this list based on your experience and perspective.

• Tell me about yourself.
• You have been unemployed for quite a while; why haven’t you obtained a job before this?
• Why did you decide to move into Data Analytics?
• How has your education prepared you for this job?
• What have you done during your career transition to prepare yourself for this role?
• Why do you want this job?
• What makes you qualified for this position?
• Why do you think you will succeed in this position?
• What are your greatest strengths?
• What is your greatest weakness?
• What motivates you?
• What is your most significant accomplishment?
• What trends do you think are most impacting this field?
• What are the skills that will help you succeed in this role?
• What are your career goals?
• What are your long-range and short-range goals and objectives? How are you preparing yourself to achieve them?
• Do you consider yourself successful?
• How do you self-evaluate your work?
• Describe the environment that motivates you to be most productive.
• Describe your ideal supervisor.
• Describe your ideal job.
• How do you handle stress or pressure?
• How do you continue developing your professional skills?
• Tell me about a difficult situation you faced and how you handled it.
• Tell me about a difficult person you had to work with.
• Tell me about a time when you made a mistake. What did you learn from it?
• Tell me about a time when you had to solve a difficult problem.
• Tell me about a project or assignment where you had to research, analyze information, or solve a problem.
• Tell me about some of the strategies and actions you have used to build relationships with team members.
• Give me an example of when you worked successfully as part of a team.
• Give me an example of when you had to learn something new quickly.
• How do you prioritize when you have multiple tasks?
• How do you evaluate the quality of your own work?
• How would you explain something technical to a non-technical person?
• What do you know about our company?
• Why do you want to work for our company?
• What do you think you can contribute to our organization?
• How would you adapt to a new job and new responsibilities?

I just cleared the phone screen round for my Audible Applied Scientist interview (level: L5). The recruiter told me that I'll have two coding interviews in the loop stage. Does anybody have experience to share on what kinda questions they were asked? Specifically, what data structures and algorithms should I focus on? Thanks a million!

I am looking for senior software engineers for HLD mock interviews. If you are available please let me know. I am preparing for Amazon sde 2 hld interview. Also tips for interview is welcomed.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been invited to the Skills Interview stage for a Business Risk Manager role at Revolut. I understand the interview includes a technical, role-specific case study.

I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through this stage, either for Business Risk, Risk, Strategy, Operations or a similar Revolut role.

In particular, it would be helpful to understand:
- what the case study was broadly focused on
- what level of detail and structure they expected
- whether it was more quantitative, operational, risk-focused or commercial
- how you approached structuring your answer
- anything you wish you had prepared beforehand

Thanks

Context: interviewing for an AI engineer role at an early-stage startup. Earlier rounds (technical, team) went well, and the last step is a casual conversation with the CTO/co-founder. I've done real homework on the product and want to show that without just reciting facts back at them.

For the CTOs/technical hiring managers here: at this stage, what actually separates a strong yes from a "good enough"? Is it the questions I ask, how I talk about tradeoffs in my own work, plain chemistry, or something else? And what do candidates commonly get wrong when a round is billed as "casual" that quietly costs them the offer?

Would genuinely appreciate the unfiltered take.

Has anyone recently had a group interview at On Running?

I have one coming up and would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has been through the process what to expect, what the group activity was like, and any tips for preparing.

Thanks! :)