Prepare for your GitHub DevOps interview

CI/CD and developer platform engineering cases calibrated to GitHub’s developer-velocity and community-first engineering culture.

Socratify AI

The Interview

What GitHub is looking for

CI/CD Design Interview

Pipeline Architecture

01GitHub Actions Workflow Optimization

02Build Time & Parallelism Strategy

03Caching Architecture & Cache Hit Rate

04Flaky Test Detection & Quarantine

Platform Eng Interview

Developer Platform Design

01Internal Developer Portal Design

02Developer Experience Metrics

03Secrets & Permissions Management

04Deployment Frequency Optimization

Behavioral Interview

01Developer Empathy & Platform Thinking

02Open Source Collaboration

03Security-First Engineering Culture

04Complexity Communication

GitHub Actions pipeline design focus//Developer velocity and DX metrics//Open source collaboration culture

Practice Library

GitHub exercises

Ready to ace your GitHub DevOps interview?

Prepare for your GitHub DevOps interview

CI/CD and developer platform engineering cases calibrated to GitHub’s developer-velocity and community-first engineering culture.

Socratify AI

The Interview

What GitHub is looking for

CI/CD Design Interview

Pipeline Architecture

01GitHub Actions Workflow Optimization

02Build Time & Parallelism Strategy

03Caching Architecture & Cache Hit Rate

04Flaky Test Detection & Quarantine

Platform Eng Interview

Developer Platform Design

01Internal Developer Portal Design

02Developer Experience Metrics

03Secrets & Permissions Management

04Deployment Frequency Optimization

Behavioral Interview

01Developer Empathy & Platform Thinking

02Open Source Collaboration

03Security-First Engineering Culture

04Complexity Communication

GitHub Actions pipeline design focus//Developer velocity and DX metrics//Open source collaboration culture

How It Works

Master GitHub DevOps Interviews

CI/CD optimization and platform engineering cases scored on GitHub’s developer-velocity dimensions. · Click to expand

1Your DevOps Goals

Infrastructure Reliability

Practitioner

CI/CD Design

Practitioner

2DevOps Case Prep

GitHub Actions pipelines grew from 14 to 38 min average and build failures from 6% to...

CASE INTERVIEWMedium

GitHub

3Frameworks

Framework

Are CI/CD pipeline failures driving failures?

Is test coverage insufficient to catch regressions?

Unit test coverage: 48% (target: 80%)

Integration tests added for only 22% of new endpoints

Is environment parity between staging and prod broken?

Config drift detected in 14 of 38 services (37%)

Staging DB uses v14.2, prod uses v14.8 — schema divergence

Are release process failures the root cause?

Are unapproved changes bypassing change management?

55% of post-mortem incidents traced to unapproved hotfixes

Change freeze violations: 8 in last 90 days

Is rollback capability too slow to limit blast radius?

Mean rollback time: 47 min (SLA: 10 min)

6 of 18 services lack automated rollback scripts

Is infrastructure reliability causing deployment failures?

Are stale dependencies creating compatibility failures?

42% of services running EOL dependencies (>18 months old)

3 critical CVEs in prod introduced in last 60 days

Is Terraform configuration drift causing infra failures?

8 IaC drift incidents/month detected via Terraform plan

Manual changes applied directly to 9 prod resources (bypassing IaC)

4Feedback

Infrastructure Reliability

Distinctive

Incident Response Design

Strong

CI/CD Architecture

Meeting Bar

Observability & Diagnostics

Strong

Repeat

Practice Library

GitHub exercises

GitHub Actions pipelines in a 200-engineer org take 38 minutes average — up from 14...

CASE INTERVIEWMedium

DevOps / CI-CD · Pipeline RegressionGitHub

Design a CI/CD architecture for a 500-engineer monorepo using GitHub Actions that...

LEARNHard

DevOps / Platform · Pipeline ArchitectureGitHub

A flaky test rate of 12% is causing developers to re-run pipelines 2.4× on average,...

LEARNMedium

DevOps / Testing · Flaky Test StrategyGitHub

Tell me about a time you improved developer productivity through a platform or tooling...

BEHAVIORALMedium

Behavioral · Developer ExperienceGitHub

Describe a situation where you had to balance moving fast on a platform change against...

BEHAVIORALMedium

Behavioral · Risk vs VelocityGitHub