Elektrobit Automotive Interview Experience for Cloud Application Developer

It was in November 2021 that I got an interview chance in Elektrobit for the position of Cloud Application Developer. It’s an entry-level job that I was interviewed for. The interview happened in virtual mode. 3 rounds of interviews were conducted(Technical, Managerial and HR)

Round 1 (Technical Interview)

There were 2 people in the interview panel(Senior Engineer and a Technical Architect). I was asked to introduce myself and then they started asking questions about basic Python programming and tested how good I was with Python & SQL. Later they started asking questions related to Cloud as well. For every question asked, they wanted me to explain with an example code. Some of them are:

• Given a string s, return the possible characters that are repeated the least number of times.
• Given a list of integers, remove all the duplicates.
• How does a set function work in Python?
• Difference between list and tuple in Python.
• Finalize keyword in Python.
• Pickling vs Unpickling in Python.
• Explain types of Joins with examples.
• Design a Student Class in Python.

  Later they started asking about the cloud. Some of the cloud-related topics that were asked are:

• In order to deploy an application that takes a .csv as input and extracts some info and stores them in a DB, what all AWS services will be used, and how to you approach this problem?
• Map a few known GCP / AWS services in terms of compute storage network.
• What are Terraform and its benefits?
• Explain in detail about AWS EBS, S3, and EC2.
• Is EC2 an IaaS, PaaS or SaaS?
• Difference between Docker and Kubernetes?
• Is there an alternative to Kubernetes?
• Design a high-level CI/CD pipeline for a web application.

Then they started asking questions about a few of the projects mentioned in my resume. They asked a few web applications-related questions regarding DNS, CORS, REST, and Authentication. 
Overall it was a good experience. Initially, I was a little nervous but they made me feel comfortable and they were very nice and patient during the whole interview.

Round 2 (Managerial Round)

• Basic questions about my previous company experiences and the kind of work that I was involved in there.
• Reason for changing my previous job.
• Areas of Interest and the domain that I wanted to work in the future.

Round 3 (HR Round)

• Tell me something about yourself.
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Where do you want to see yourself in the next 3 to 5 years?

I joined Elektrobit (Bengaluru) in December 2021.