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      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      11 Nov 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Vancouver, BC
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Lightspeed (Vancouver, BC) in Nov 2025

      Interview

      I initially met with HR and went over the usual questions and cleared that. I was then invited for a technical interview with manager Keith and 2 other senior engineers (the X-Men: Charles and Xavier) and had a very very positive experience. I really enjoyed this interview, Keith made me feel very comfortable and actually made me feel smarter rather than dumb which is not common because most of my experience has been the opposite. The other two engineers, the X-Men were very respectful and never made me feel less when I didn't answer correctly. A lot of the questions were verbal, a lot of troubleshooting, design, K8S parts and the only hands-on was to create a function to parse results from a URL. The best part about this task is they actually give you the tools you need to get it done. Keith said, "feel free to use any tools necessary to get it done" and that alone made this interview possibly the best experience I ever had. Unlike other companies who expect you to know this without reading a single website, Lightspeed understood that reality is you are likely to use internet to get things done. I probably didn't get the job but it was refreshing and I hope all companies take the note and adapt the same approach. I don't even care that I didn't get the job, the experience was enough to feel good about where I am today.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      A lot of troubleshooting questions about Linux, K8S, Databases. A lot of questions about architecture and how you would x,y and z. Basically a lot of things you can't BS your way out of. The coding exercise is not very hard, pass in a URL via CLI to a function and have the function return the content with a few curveballs. Hint: know the requests library (Python) or any library with similar functions.
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      Other Site Reliability Engineer interview reviews for Lightspeed

      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      9 Oct 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Belfast, Northern Ireland
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Lightspeed (Belfast, Northern Ireland) in Aug 2024

      Interview

      Interview process took more then 6 weeks. Which too long. Team doesn't reply to follow up questions of feedback of interview stages but they invite me to next stages. First stage is HR interview then 1 hour technical interview then 1.5 hour architect interview The guys were nice and friendly but seems the company is not organised at all. After make the role remote on the UK they suddenly decide to make it on-site interview Belfast and this is the reason of not moving forward with me. Big mess to be honest. I expect big company like lightspeed should have enough people to organise the interview and response to candidates

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Draw an architect for pipelines to deploy to Kubernetes clusters.
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      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      3 Jul 2021
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sydney
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Lightspeed (Sydney) in Jun 2021

      Interview

      I applied for a role at Sydney LightSpeed office. I was so disappointed with the Director sitting at Germany and the feedback given. There were 4 stages I went through. 1. Technical overview call - I did well 2. Technical Code - I have completed the code and the guy who reviewed liked it. 3. Technical Interview on Code - I have explained every aspect of the architecture in terms of AWS, Terraforms, Security side of things, CI/CD process. Both the manager and the interviewer liked my answers very much and was selected at least until here. 4. Director Level interview - I did well here too and this guys rejected me. Do you know what I received as part of feedback? You look to be a very good mid-senior level SRE however we are looking for someone who is more senior to this role. To the guys who are interviewing, if you are looking for senior level candidates or dont feel someone is senior to a role, WHY DO YOU PASS THE CANDIDATES TO NEXT LEVEL? Isn't that waste of time for everyone? Be on your decision, just don't waste time which illogical feedback. Reject if you dont feel at the first place. Do not increase hopes of a candidate by passing them to next rounds.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      On AWS, Terraforms, Architecture etc
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