Bitbucket Interview questions and answers

  

Q1. How use Bitbucket step by step?

• From Bitbucket, click the + icon in the global sidebar and select Repository. Bitbucket displays the Create a new repository page. …
• For Access level, leave the This is a private repository box checked. …
• Pick Git for the Repository type. …
• Click Create repository.

Q2. What is the Difference between Git and Bitbucket?

The main difference between Git and Bitbucket is that Git is a distributed version control system while Bitbucket is a web-based version control repository hosting service for development projects that use Git or Mercurial.

The version control system allows the software developer to share code and to maintain the history of their work. It can store the modification on files and source code. Version control system saves the state of the project and saves them each time the user does a modification on the project. Each saved state of the project is called a version. Overall, Git is a version control system, whereas Bitbucket is a version control hosting service.

Q3. Is Bitbucket a repository?

Bitbucket is a Git-based source code repository hosting service owned by Atlassian. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts with an unlimited number of private repositories.

Q4. Is bitbucket a DevOps tool?

Bitbucket is part of Atlassian’s DevOps offering. Atlassian connects development, IT operations, and business teams with automation that spans our products and third-party tools.

Q5. Are bitbucket and stash the same?

Bitbucket Server (previously known as Stash) was first released in May 2012 as an enterprise-grade, high-performance, self-managed Git repository hosting and collaboration tool. … Bitbucket Cloud (previously known as Bitbucket) was acquired by Atlassian in 2010 and was purpose-built for the multi-tenant public cloud.

Q6. What is a pipeline in BitBucket?

Bitbucket Pipelines is an integrated CI/CD service built into Bitbucket. It allows you to automatically build, test, and even deploy your code based on a configuration file in your repository. Essentially, we create containers in the cloud for you.

Q7. Which is better GitHub or BitBucket?

Bitbucket is more flexible than GitHub

While GitHub comes with a lot of features and allows you to create your own workflows, Bitbucket arguably has more flexibility built-in. Bitbucket can also import from Git, CodePlex, Google Code, SourceForge, and SVN. GitHub, meanwhile, can import from Git, SVN, HG, and TFS.

Q8. Is bitbucket centralized or distributed?

Built for professional teams. Bitbucket supports distributed version control and makes it easy for you to collaborate on code with your team.

Q9. Why bitbucket is used?

Bitbucket is our Git repository management solution designed for professional teams. It gives you a central place to manage git repositories, collaborate on your source code and guide you through the development flow. It provides awesome features that include: … Workflow control to enforce a project or team workflow.

Q10. Which language templates are supported by the bitbucket pipeline?

Use Pipelines in different software languages

• JavaScript (Node. js) with Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Java with Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Laravel with Bitbucket Pipelines.
• PHP with Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Python with Bitbucket Pipelines.
• Ruby with Bitbucket Pipelines.

Q11. What do you feel is one of the top issues that is faced by data engineers today?

Being in the midst of the greatest technological revolution in the history of man, data engineers face many difficult issues in the work that they perform on a daily basis. While there are many directions that you can go with this question, be sure to focus your answer on something that you can speak passionately about. If you can research a common issue in the industry that Bitbucket works in, you may likely score some bonus points with your interviewer.

Q12. What is one unique personality trait you possess that would help you be successful in this role with Bitbucket?

This question is allowing you to have the floor during your interview to wow your interviewer with something they might not know about you yet from your resume or time so far during the interview. Think about a strong, unique trait that you have that has led to prior success in your field and explain in detail how this will help further you in your career with Bitbucket. If possible, be very unique in your answer to draw a direct line between your personality and success in this role.

Q13. How do you ensure that you have a healthy work-life balance in your career?

In the fast paced world in software and technology development, heavy work loads and potential on-call duties have created a lot of burnout in professionals. Your interviewer is looking to hear that you are cognizant of the risks of burnout and that you do what is necessary to maintain your own personal health and well being and that of your family as well. While you can use this time to talk about personal interests or hobbies outside of work, try to focus on how these items help keep you refreshed for the work that you'll be doing for Bitbucket.

Q14. If hired for this position at Bitbucket, what leadership skills would you bring to our team?

While this position at Bitbucket may not hold the title of manager, supervisor or director, the organization firmly believes that employees that demonstrate key leadership qualities are better set for future career success. Aside from that, leadership skills help you work better as part of a larger team and with potential customers as well. Prior to your interview, think about one or two leadership qualities that you possess and talk in detail about how you've exemplified those qualities in the past.

Q15. What experience do you have in the different types of software maintenance?

As a reputable company, Bitbucket takes their software maintenance processes seriously and your interviewer is looking to hear that you are familiar with the four different types of software maintenance. Talk to your interviewer about any work you have done in the past with corrective, adaptive, perfective and/or preventative software maintenance. Use specific examples and make sure that your interviewer walks away from your conversation knowing that you understand the importance of proper system maintenance.

Q16. Do you consider yourself stronger in C++, C#, Java, or Python?

Before your interview, do some research to understand what tech stack Bitbucket uses so you can best prepare and highlight your expertise. If you aren't as strong in one of the skills you feel is necessary, be sure to explain how you've used it and how you are growing your knowledge to become better. Be sure to be honest in your answer, as the company will likely test your strengths. 

Q17. What data cleaning methods are you familiar with and comfortable using if hired for this role at Bitbucket?

To improve data quality and increase overall productivity of a system, Bitbucket relies on their data analysts to use data cleansing methods to ensure quality data exists in their software. Be open and honest with the ways that you've helped ensure quality and accurate data in the systems that you've worked with while also showing that you have an open mind to learning and utilizing more methods if hired for this position.

Q18. Our cloud computing at Bitbucket requires our experts to take proper security measures in their work. What security measures are you familiar with utilizing in a cloud platform?

As with any server or database storage, unique security risks are posed to organizations that have moved their data and applications to the cloud. At Bitbucket, part of your role will be to ensure that all security measures are in place with the organizations data in the cloud and your interviewer is looking to hear that you are familiar with diagnosing security risks and taking action to prevent them with this question. Talk about your knowledge of the different cloud service providers and other security measures that you are familiar with taking in your work.

Q19. In a technical support role here at Bitbucket, we expect that you would be able to bring great customer service skills to the role. Describe your customer service philosophy in the support that you would provide.

While your interviewer will be able to get great insight into your technical expertise during your interviewer, this one question will allow you the opportunity to describe how you will bring solid interpersonal skills to the role. Your interview knows that customers will rely on you to provide quick and sensible support for their needs, but the expectation to do that in a pleasing manner is of utmost importance. Talk from a high level about your feelings on why providing great service is important and give an example or two of ways that you have done that in the past.

Q20. If hired here at Bitbucket, what do you feel would be the biggest hurdle for you to overcome from the start?

The key to answering this question with confidence starts with understanding that you are interviewing with Bitbucket because your interviewer feels that you are a strong candidate for this position. What your interviewer is focusing on with this question is how they could be of most help to you if hired for the job. So, take the time prior to your interview to think about an aspect of the position that would be the most difficult for you to overcome to be up and running at full speed and then take time to explain how you would plan to overcome that hurdle if hired. This structured answer will tell your interviewer that you have put thought to your potential shortcoming with a plan of action. 

Q21. What unique values can you bring to Bitbucket in your user experience design skills?

While your interviewer has shown confidence in your technical abilities to succeed at Bitbucket as a UX designer, this question is helping them gain insight into your ability to see the big picture in the work that you do. As you think about the unique personal values that you would bring to the role, try and paint a picture of your work tying to the end user and how you can help make it more productive, enjoyable and satisfying for them. 

Q22. What software analysis and design tools do you have familiarity working with?

As a software engineer for Bitbucket, your interviewer wants to hear that you have experience in utilizing tools that you make you more proficient in your work. Dig back on your past experiences and talk openly about your experiences with the different analysis and design tools that are available to help you be better in the work that you do. In the end, make sure that your interviewer understands that you are proficient in the use of these tools and open to learning and using new tools as well.

Q23. If you were faced with a situation that you didn’t know the answer to or understand, what would your next steps be?

Work as an IT support specialist in the software industry could potentially put you in a situation to handle a question or issue that leaves you scratching your head. While explaining to your interviewer that you have the ability to take a methodical approach to getting a problem solved with the help of others, make sure not to lost sight on what is important to the customer. Talk about how you will put the customer at east by considering their needs as part of your process.

Q24. Do you have experience working with data in a cloud computing environment?

Over recent years, more and more companies are converting to cloud based computing services because the conversion allows them to save money and have better auditing trails. As a prospective data engineer with Bitbucket, your interviewer will be looking to hear that you are at least familiar with the concepts of working with cloud based data. Talk in details about the experiences you have while keeping your mind open to working with more in the future if hired with Bitbucket.

Q25. Tell me about your problem-solving skills. Do you enjoy analyzing and solving complex problems?

Software developers spend a great deal of time debugging programs. It is essential for Bitbucket to have someone experienced in quickly identifying problems and responsive in providing solutions. The interviewer would also like to gauge how you work with internal and external customers when problem-solving.

Q26. Bitbucket embraces an Agile environment. Explain your experience in Agile methodologies and why you think it is important.

The interviewer would like to understand the depth of your knowledge in Agile. The interviewer would also like to know if you work well with team collaboration, are responsive to stakeholder needs, and can work well with team defined milestones. Give a specific example of your experience.

Q27. What would you say is your top non-technical skill that will help you succeed in this role here at Bitbucket?

As a software architect at Bitbucket, you will be relied upon to be the bridge to between the business and technical side of the organization. Your work my be relied upon to work within many silos of the organization. Because of this need, your interviewer is asking you to dig deep inside of yourself and talk about what you feel is your greatest skill to help you do this that is outside of your technical ability. As you prepare for this question, there are many ways that you can answer. No matter how you answer, be sure that your answer relates to your ability to work with other people in some way, shape or form.

Q28. Tell me about a time that there was a delay in the project and how did you handle that delay?

In your answer, be sure to tell your prospective employer why there was a delay, but most importantly, how you handled it and got back on track. It's important to use the STAR format for questions like these: situation, task, action, result. Situation: the delay. Task: resolving it quickly and getting back on track. Action: how you went about executing the task. Result: how the steps you took to resolve it led to the effective and successful resolution of that delay.

Q29. The next cloud engineer that we hire here at Bitbucket needs to be able build a system that can handle a high amount of traffic. How would you test our system’s ability to handle large amounts of traffic?

This question allows your interviewer to gain insight into your thought process and ability surrounding building a cloud network that has an architecture that can handle large amounts of traffic without failure. Some key points to focus on your answer are your ability to match capacity to system demand and use horizontal scaling in the design of the system. 

Q30. In SQL, how do you explain the differences between clustered and non-clustered indexes? Can you name a time that you used each?

Bitbucket uses indexes to improve query performances within their software and for this question, your interviewer is looking to hear that you have a basic understanding of both clustered and non-clustered indexes. Explain the differences between the two types of indexes and be sure you can either speak to relevant times that you’ve used each or when would be the appropriate application to use each.