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Aced Five Rounds, Failed on the Resume Deep-Dive

BoxSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Aug 2025

A recruiter reached out to me about a Senior SDE position — half development, half DevOps. I didn't have DevOps experience, but I said yes anyway. Round 1 was the technical phone screen, the classic four questions. The interviewer laughed and admitted the questions hadn't changed in years. A system has failed and you can only SSH in to check the logs. The log file is huge — what do you do? Answer…

Shared by a candidate · reported Aug 2025. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.