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Oracle

Cloud Engineer

Austin, TX

Fall 2025Accepted

University of Florida · Computer Science

4th year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 2 past internships

Average Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtualSlow process

Process was slow but they communicated well. Two virtual technical rounds, first was SQL and schema design with indexing, second was cloud concepts where I had to describe building a multi region cache.

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“What's the difference between a blue-green deployment and a canary release?”

TD

Cloud Engineer

Toronto, ON

Winter 2026No Offer

York University · Computer Science

3rd year · 2.5-2.8 GPA · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalVirtualMultiple rounds

I had Azure experience not AWS and I think that hurt me. OA had networking and cloud questions plus a short coding component. Technical interview covered AWS services, VPC architecture and IAM

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Explain GitOps. What does it mean and how does it differ from traditional CD?”
  2. 2.“How do you manage secrets and credentials in a cloud environment?”

IBM

Cloud Engineer

Richmond, VA

Fall 2024No Offer

Virginia Tech · Computer Engineering

3rd year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalBehavioralVirtual

They wanted OpenShift or IBM Cloud experience and I've mostly used GCP, I think that hurt me. Recruiter screen was a 20 min phone call, then the technical interview dug into cloud architecture.

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Explain the difference between a Docker container and a virtual machine.”

Telus

Cloud Engineer

Vancouver, BC

Summer 2026Accepted

University of British Columbia · Computer Engineering

3rd year · 3.7+ GPA · 2 past internships

Average Interview

TechnicalVirtualMultiple rounds

Deeper than expected for a co-op. They walk you through their actual stack during the interview. GCP and containerization questions, also service mesh architecture. Had a coding component in the screen before the round with two engineers.

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“Tell me about a time you migrated a workload to the cloud. What were the key challenges?”
  2. 2.“What's the purpose of a CDN?”

VMware

Cloud Engineer

San Jose, CA

Winter 2026No Offer

Virginia Tech · Computer Engineering

3rd year · 1 past internship

Average Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsVirtual

Should have prepped more on the infrastructure side. Phone screen then two coding interviews, second one had virtualization questions and I clearly didn't know enough about hypervisors and VM scheduling. Not rude about it though

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“How do you approach rolling back a failed deployment?”

CGI

Cloud Engineer

Moncton, NB

Summer 2026Accepted

University of New Brunswick · Computer Science

4th year · 3 past internships

Average Interview

TechnicalMultiple roundsIn-PersonCase study

The group session had us solve a client problem together while observers evaluated. Assessment centre format. Individual technical interview covered Azure services, IaC with Terraform and containerization questions

Questions Asked

  1. 1.“What's the difference between stateless and stateful services”
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