
Zoom Communications Devops Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
Based on 19 interview experiences · FREE TO READ
Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Zoom Communications.
DevOps Engineer
The interview included technical rounds and a problem-solving or scripting challenge to assess skills relevant to daily tasks. They asked about Linux, Ansible, Kubernetes, CI/CD principles, and CI tools like Jenkins, Ant, Maven, and native code compilation.
- Can you explain the difference and purpose of liveness and readiness probes in Kubernetes deployments?
SRE/DevOps Engineer
HORRIBLE interview experience. Had an initial call with a recruiter that went fairly well. Was immediately moved to a final round interview (red flag) with two engineering managers. Come the day of the interview, neither manager had any idea who I was or what position I was applying for. The first manager had me work out some bit string problems verbally for 30 minutes as he gradually became more and more irritable. He ended the interview early. I was then passed to the next manager for my final interview. There was a language barrier between us so he passed me off to another interviewer and dropped off the call. I was asked to write a simple Python program to pull client IPs out of some log files. This would have been fine if I was given an actual editor to code in - instead I was told to type out my answer in the Zoom chat as I was working through it. After that was done, my interviewer spent the next 45 minutes complaining about the WLB at Zoom and their awful deployment processes. I was told I would be working weekends and would need to be available to support developers in China. I'm honestly grateful to this interviewer - he really helped me dodge a bullet. In short, tons of technical and cultural red flags EVERYWHERE. I've omitted some of them here but you can get a decent picture of how terrible this experience was. I never heard back from the company afterwards.
- Verbal bit manipulation LeetCode problem without an editor or whiteboard
- Trivia about Docker internals
- Easy Python scripting question
DevOps Engineer
The interview process was not good. HR did not communicate things on time. They did not ask me my current CTC and my expectations before starting the interviews, This led to waste of time for me as well as the interviewers. I will not recommend this company to anyone at least for India location.
- The whole interview process felt really strange and off.
- Can you elaborate on the unusual aspects of the interview process?
Zoom Communications Devops Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Zoom Communications interview reports.
“If you execute the command 'echo "Hello"', will the output be 'echo "Hello"'?”
Read reports →“What's the difference between Kubernetes Deployments and Daemonsets?”
Read reports →“What does 'df' stand for or mean?”
Read reports →“Can you explain the difference between virtual machines and Docker?”
Read reports →“How do you ensure Kubernetes runs with redundancy?”
Read report →“Can you explain the difference and purpose of liveness and readiness probes in Kubernetes deployments?”
Read report →“How can you search a file for a specific delimiter, and can you write the script for it in the chat?”
Read report →“What are the best practices for using Git?”
Read report →“Can you explain remote backend configurations in Terraform?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 19 Zoom Communications interview reports.