got a recruiter screen scheduled for an SRE/infrastructure role at anduril and trying to calibrate what to expect in the technical rounds. most of what i'm finding online is from 2022-2023 and i want more current signal.
specifically curious about: how hard is the systems design round for infra vs swe roles is there a take-home or is it all live coding how long does the full loop take once you're past the recruiter screen anything about the infra team specifically, what they're actually building
drop your recent experience below if you've been through it, appreciate it.
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backend_bekah
went through swe loop (not infra) about 6 months ago. no take-home for my track, all live. systems design was pretty real-world: they gave me a component from something plausibly anduril-adjacent and asked me to design it. not a leetcode-systems-design template situation. expect actual tradeoffs.
infra_ines
for infra specifically i've heard the design round leans heavily on reliability and fault tolerance over pure scale. not "design twitter" but more like "you're in a degraded network environment, what breaks first and how do you know." worth practicing failure scenarios not just the happy path.
sre_sol
oh that's actually really useful framing. makes sense given what they build. i'll prep more failure-mode scenarios. thank you.
market_realist
loop timing: in my case it was 3 weeks from recruiter screen to onsite, then 4 days to offer. but i've seen people report it dragging out longer if a role isn't fully open yet. ask your recruiter directly about headcount status.