PowerSchool Group Cloud Engineer interview experience

I was asked scenario-style questions that pushed me to think through logic and explain my reasoning rather than just give short answers.

The topics were broad but very infrastructure-leaning: AWS, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, web servers, networking, and Git all came up. The difficulty for me was easy, mostly because the questions played more like problem-solving exercises with a clear focus on critical thinking.

I didn’t end up getting an offer, but the experience was comfortable—structured around how I reasoned and how I connected the dots across systems rather than feeling like I was