Nutanix·Site Reliability Engineer

Nutanix Site Reliability Engineer interview experience

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Bangalore RuralPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My technical interview experience was pretty focused and split into a couple of clear rounds.

The first one started with foundational networking questions around how architectural layers fit together, and I had to explain ideas like the difference between application and presentation layers as part of the OSI model. I also got asked about HTTP versus gRPC, which forced me to be precise rather than hand-wavy.

The second round went deeper into routing and advanced networking topics. I worked through questions about routing behavior and how the layers interact, and I tied my answers back to the mental model I was using for the stack. Across both rounds, the emphasis felt like they were

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