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How We Built the Most Comprehensive Google SRE Interview System Ever in the world


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Ace Interviews

🚀 How We Built the Most Comprehensive Google SRE Interview System Ever in the world

If you’ve ever tried preparing for Google’s SRE interviews, you already know the truth:

There are plenty of resources — but absolutely no structure.

You jump between:

  • random blogs,
  • outdated design patterns,
  • scattered GitHub repos,
  • incomplete question banks,
  • and YouTube videos that contradict each other.

And somewhere in that chaos, you’re supposed to build the judgment, reasoning style, and systems thinking Google expects.

Most people don’t fail because they’re unprepared.

They fail because their preparation is random.

So we built the system we wish existed.

💡 The Gap We Saw in the Industry

Across conversations with engineers and hiring managers, the same complaints kept surfacing:

“I’m studying a lot… I just don’t know if I’m studying the right things.”

“Books explain concepts, but not how Google actually evaluates you.”

“I know Linux, but I don’t know what part of Linux Google cares about.”

“Why does nobody teach real-world incident reasoning? That’s what interviews are full of!”

This wasn’t a content problem.

It was a structure problem.

So we decided to build:

A complete end-to-end SRE interview system — not a playlist, not a repo, not a notes file.

🧠 What We Built (And Why It Took Months)

At Ace Interviews, we completed what we believe is the most comprehensive Google SRE preparation system available anywhere.

Here’s what makes it different:

✔ 1. Covers the entire interview lifecycle

Most resources only help with coding or design.

We built a system that covers:

  • Recruiter screen
  • Tell me about yourself (SRE-framed)
  • Coding (Python + Go)
  • Systems Design
  • NALSD
  • Troubleshooting
  • Behavioral / Googliness
  • Salary negotiation

One ecosystem.

Zero gaps.

✔ 2. Deep scenario-based learning

Real Google-style incident drills:

  • BGP route leak
  • Kernel D-state spike
  • TLS cert expiry
  • CDN propagation failure
  • AZ-level disk IOPS saturation
  • Memory leak slow-burn incident
  • Load balancer health check blackholes

The internet has theory.

Nobody has these.

✔ 3. A 30-day structured roadmap

Engineers don’t need “more content.”

They need clarity.

The roadmap tells you exactly what to study every day — and what skill each day builds.

✔ 4. Linux Internals + eBPF + Observability (New for 2025)

This was the most requested addition.

We built a Linux Internals guide that includes:

  • Scheduling internals
  • Memory internals
  • Cgroups, namespaces
  • Filesystem internals
  • Kernel tracing
  • eBPF
  • perf, ftrace, BPF toolkits
  • Real RCAs from kernel-level outages

This is the stuff senior SREs use daily — but zero interview books teach.

📈 What This Taught Us About Engineering & Learning

⭐ Engineers don’t want more chapters — they want certainty

Study this.

Think like this.

Debug like this.

Answer like this.

⭐ Modern interviews test judgment

Not recall.

Not memorization.

But judgment under failure.

⭐ The market was starving for structure

People pay for clarity — not volume.

🔗 If You Want to See the System

👉 Google SRE Interview Bundle — Ace Interviews

https://aceinterviews.gumroad.com/l/Google_SRE_Interviews_Your_Secret_Bundle_to_Conquer

We’ve continued updating it with Linux Internals, 2026 SRE trends, eBPF tracing techniques, and more.

💬 If you’re an SRE, DevOps, or infra engineer:

I’d love to hear:

What part of the Google SRE process feels the least understood or the hardest to prepare for?

Let’s turn that into the next guide.


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Ace Interviews