Yandex newest SRE interview question list just got leaked!
Have you ever had to put out a production fire — literally?
What’s the difference between Disaster Recovery and Damage Assessment?
What’s the RTO for a data center after a direct drone strike?
Can you debug infrastructure using satellite imagery?
What would you do if your Kubernetes cluster became literally bare metal?
How would you configure HPA so that pods can scale away from incoming drones in time?
What would you do if your service didn’t just lose a node, but an entire data center?
Explain the difference between Blue-Green Deployment and a red-level air raid alert.
What does hot standby mean to you when the backup data center is still on fire?
Which Prometheus alert would you configure to detect smoke coming from the server room?
Have you ever migrated infrastructure using kubectl evacuate?
What would you do if terraform destroy was executed without Terraform?
Can a drone strike on a server room be considered a successful Chaos Engineering experiment?
How many nines of availability would your service have left after losing two data centers?
How do you distinguish a DDoS attack from an attack that makes DDoS unnecessary?
What do you do when your disaster recovery plan starts with “find a server that’s still intact”?
How would you explain to management that an Availability Zone is no longer available?
Which metric would you choose for your SLO: uptime, MTTR, or the number of surviving server racks?
What if the only way to restore your cluster is to run git clone in another city?
What does immutable infrastructure mean to you, and how literally are you willing to take it?
Bonus Challenge for Staff SRE Candidates
You have three data centers, two drones, and one quarterly availability KPI.
Design a fault-tolerant architecture.
The redundancy budget hasn’t been approved, but management still demands five nines (99.999%) availability.
@AIinvestor13@babyfolio How would you trade up if any trade event in EU is considered a tax event? You auto loose tax percent even if the money never leaves the brokerage
@ai_for_success IMO a faster solution would be doing smth like @coreyganim with todoist or maybe @NotionHQ MCP (it works amazing btw) to have an agent board instead of slow and not really secure email
Grok Bot is crazy, man. You can claim your email with literally one click. I just did it.
And I also set up cross-channel communication between my Hermes Agent and Grok Bot. They can now hand off tasks and work with each other over email.
This is literally two different agents getting shit done for me now.
I was lucky enough to get base Mac mini M4 for like 400$ (used)
Assuming the current Hetzner prices same machine would be at least 20$/month (given disk space and other specs more like 30$)
Only downside is — if you don’t have access to stable power grid none of the bots are working haha
So my wife works as a senior marketer
Her job is to talk to people on Telegram (design, devs, lawyers), give them tasks, review results and provide feedback so they learn
For the past 6 months, I moved all my work to Claude on a VPS. And I noticed my day-to-day work looks the same as my wife’s
Except my Claude Max costs a fraction of what my wife’s distributed team costs, it never sleeps and is usually smarter than an average employee
Claude has access to my support, code, marketing instruments, and also life stuff – my training plan, calorie tracking, and taxes
I don’t remember the last time I opened a code editor or any SaaS dashboard – Claude now does everything. I review its work, approve important things, and it learns from my feedback
Lately Telegram released an update that lets your bot have tabs and threads in a conversation with you, and it made my work even easier (bravo @durov)
Now I have a view like in a Claude app and can control all the parallel work tracks, but it’s much better than just Claude because I don’t need to keep my laptop open and it has much more context and access than the Claude app allows
This feels like I have a whole team working for me, but I don’t need to worry about salaries, their mental condition or have meetings with them. Life is good
@DanielLockyer Coming from ex-Soviet countries and seeing Americans living life on easy mode for the first time honestly blew my brain. It’s still a struggle not to get envious sometimes