# michaelkkehoe/sre-interview

A collection of questions to practice with for SRE interviews

Repository: https://github.com/michaelkkehoe/sre-interview
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sre-interview
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-01-25T04:34:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3027, "days_push": 1681, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1014, forks 220 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:13.951244+00:00)

## What it is
A curated collection of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) interview questions and answers covering topics like incident response, Linux systems, networking, observability, security, and system design. It is a community-contributed study guide maintained under an MIT license.

## Use cases
- prepare for an SRE interview
- practice site reliability engineering interview questions
- review Linux and networking concepts before an interview
- study system design questions for SRE roles
- find questions to ask interviewers
- brush up on incident response and observability topics

## When to choose
- you are preparing for a Site Reliability Engineer interview
- you want a free, topic-organized question bank with answers
- you need a quick refresher on SRE fundamentals like Linux, networking, and monitoring

## When to avoid
- you need hands-on labs or interactive exercises rather than written Q&A
- you are looking for general software engineering (non-SRE) interview prep
- you need up-to-date content on the latest cloud-native tooling, as the repo has not seen recent releases

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, developer-tools
- domain: tutorials, monitoring, security, networking
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: sre, interview-preparation, site-reliability-engineering, questions-and-answers, study-guide, devops

## Member repositories
- michaelkkehoe/sre-interview (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.951244+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:33.847392+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/michaelkkehoe/sre-interview (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:13.951244+00:00, sha 1a5c71705acd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.