Site Reliability Engineer interview practice

SLOs, incident command, capacity planning, and toil elimination — the SRE loop where communication is half the job.

Topics this interview probes

SLOs & error budgets Incident command Capacity planning Toil automation Alert design Post-incident review

Define the SLOs for a checkout flow, then defend the error budget policy you’d attach to them.
You’re incident commander on a partial outage during a product launch. Talk me through your first ten minutes.
Which alerts would you delete from our current setup, and why?

The live interviewer generates fresh, role-tailored questions — and drills down when your answers are vague.