This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Flo Comuzzi
I have been interviewing for roles for several months now (ask me why if you want to!) and thought I would write down some of the questions that came up.
A question I got by a recruiter recently is, what is the difference between a Dockerfile and a container? Wonder what they were filtering for.
What do I know about networking? VPC, BGP, firewall, subnets, IPs, cross-network communication
Another company gave me a take home assignment with instructions to showcase my proficiency in Terraform and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by developing a Terraform module for provisioning a GCP environment, including a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, along with all necessary prerequisites which were detailed in the document. I used the setup to test some CPanel later on which broke the build but everything worked for the follow up interview in which we went over my submission. Check it out.
On yet another interview, I was asked to write code so that engineers can queue up functions. How would I ensure that functions don't run over some timeout? Don't use
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Flo Comuzzi
Flo Comuzzi | Sciencx (2025-08-31T02:50:03+00:00) Recent Platform Engineer Interview Questions. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/08/31/recent-platform-engineer-interview-questions/
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