Remove a GPU node and reschedule its podsCodingGiven a cluster of GPU nodes running pods, drain one node and reschedule its pods onto the remaining nodes respecting their resource requirements. Reported on 1point3acres'…
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Design a pipeline that cleans pod alerts and finds bad podsSystem designAlerts about Kubernetes pods arrive messy: inconsistent formats, duplicates and noise. Design the data pipeline that ingests and cleans them and uses the result to flag pods that…Last asked May 2026
Infrastructure fundamentals: networking, Kubernetes and streamingSystem designA rapid-fire round of around twenty short questions with no coding, for an infrastructure role. Reported ones: 1. What happens between typing a site's address in the browser and…Last asked Jan 2026
Infrastructure fundamentals: VMs, containers, Kubernetes and CI/CDCodingA senior infrastructure screen of conversation questions: 1. How do you bring up a new compute cluster in a new cloud account, and deploy Kubernetes there for the first time? 2…Last asked Jan 2026
Run and operate a monolith on KubernetesSystem designA hiring-manager conversation for an infrastructure team whose backend is one large monolithic service. How would you run, deploy and operate it on Kubernetes: rollouts, health…Last asked Sep 2025- Design an artifact store on Kubernetes and CassandraSystem designA Java web API runs in Kubernetes on top of a Cassandra cluster and stores artifacts, each identified by a user-given name. An artifact must be created only once, even when…Last asked Sep 2025
Debug an overloaded Kubernetes clusterSystem designAn infrastructure round: a service running on Kubernetes is overloaded. Say which metrics you want to see first; the interviewer draws them for you, and you narrow the cause down…Last asked Aug 2025