DevOps Engineer · Onsite · Technical Discussion

IBM — DevOps Engineer ✅ Passed

Level: Intern

Round: Onsite · Type: Technical Discussion · Difficulty: 3/10 · Duration: 60 min · Interviewer: Neutral

Topics: CI/CD, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Helm, Troubleshooting, HPC, VPC, Containerization, Linux Commands, Database Deployment, Generative AI

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Interview date: 2026-02-23

Summary

Round 1: Technical Discussion

Question: After my self-introduction and a resume deep dive, I was asked a series of technical questions related to CI/CD, Kubernetes, Linux, and database deployments.

Details

The technical questions I was asked included:

1. What is CI/CD, and what CI/CD tools have you used?
2. How to use ArgoCD to deploy applications on Kubernetes?
3. How are Helm files structured in an application, and how do you use Helm?
4. How to troubleshoot a pod? For example, a JDBC pod in crashloopbackoff status.
5. What are HPC and VPC?
6. Why containerize?
7. Linux command for getting a process of PID 9003.
8. What Linux command can we use to find directories or files?
9. What commands or tools have you used before for troubleshooting network issues?
10. What is your approach to making a database deployment safe?
11. What are your thoughts on generative AI at work?
12. Kubernetes StatefulSet vs Deployment