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During the final interview, I was asked about how a Redis HA (High Availability) Cluster infrastructure behaves when connections between certain nodes are interrupted—specifically, how the HA environment adapts and what happens to data consistency in such a scenario. I did my best to share my assumptions, but they turned out to be incorrect. When I admitted that I didn’t know the answer, I was encouraged to imagine and "think logically" through the situation. This led to a back-and-forth where I was clearly out of my depth due to my lack of hands-on experience with Redis. I want to emphasize that I had been transparent from the beginning about not having prior experience with Redis and that I would require proper training and onboarding. Despite this, the interview focused heavily on advanced Redis-specific scenarios, which made it difficult to demonstrate my potential or skills in a fair context.
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Technical Support Engineer L3

Interviewed at Redis

4.2
Jun 25, 2025

During the final interview, I was asked about how a Redis HA (High Availability) Cluster infrastructure behaves when connections between certain nodes are interrupted—specifically, how the HA environment adapts and what happens to data consistency in such a scenario. I did my best to share my assumptions, but they turned out to be incorrect. When I admitted that I didn’t know the answer, I was encouraged to imagine and "think logically" through the situation. This led to a back-and-forth where I was clearly out of my depth due to my lack of hands-on experience with Redis. I want to emphasize that I had been transparent from the beginning about not having prior experience with Redis and that I would require proper training and onboarding. Despite this, the interview focused heavily on advanced Redis-specific scenarios, which made it difficult to demonstrate my potential or skills in a fair context.

1. Basic Red Hat questions and commands 2. one shell script shared to understand and asked what it does. 3. Some conceptual questions like difference between NFS and FTP. At the end he couldn't handle disagreement that the we shouldn't use the WebNFS on public website.
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Technical Support Engineer

Interviewed at Redis

4.2
Aug 26, 2021

1. Basic Red Hat questions and commands 2. one shell script shared to understand and asked what it does. 3. Some conceptual questions like difference between NFS and FTP. At the end he couldn't handle disagreement that the we shouldn't use the WebNFS on public website.

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