Phonepe Site Reliability Engineer interview experience

The questioning stayed anchored to my project itself, and I remember that it didn’t really branch out to other areas. My project was a simulation of a bastion host built using Terraform, and the focus on the details of that setup made it genuinely difficult.

It felt like the interviewer wanted depth rather than breadth—if I couldn’t explain decisions tied to the Terraform-based simulation, it quickly became hard to keep up. I left the process without an offer, but I appreciated that the evaluation was clearly aligned with the kind of infrastructure work the role touches.