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William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
Even though you don't work directly for DevOps in your role as a site reliability engineer, you interface with them daily and therefore need to be familiar with their process and the tools they use. The Google interviewer will ask you this question to confirm your knowledge and determine if your perception of the process and tools is similar to the ones they use in their organization. You can align your answer with the processes of the interviewing organization by carefully researching their operations. Sources for this include Google's website, the job description, and both current and former Google employees.

William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
"The typical stages for a DevOps project include planning, programming, verifying, packaging, and configuring. Some of the tools an SRE uses include Pivotal Tracker and other task management tools during the planning stage, GitHub and other source control tools when programming, CI/CD tools like Jenkins to verify, and packaging tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform for configuration. Based on my research, your organization here at Google uses similar tools."

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