I did stress test interviews for DevOps positions. I explicitly told them that and gave them a task and a time limit. I would watch what they did and there was nothing out of bounds as long as they were solving problems.
For example, I would give them an account in cloud provider and then task them with spinning up a k8s cluster with a few basic services and make it scalable, then watch and heckle as they googled around and brought up services.
The objective wasn’t to complete the task though, it was too see how they approached problem solving.
Good times.
Great example. We do the same but to spin up a single ec2 via terraform. Checking the real familiarity with tools.
This immediately filter those who lied about their experience.
I did stress test interviews for DevOps positions. I explicitly told them that and gave them a task and a time limit. I would watch what they did and there was nothing out of bounds as long as they were solving problems. For example, I would give them an account in cloud provider and then task them with spinning up a k8s cluster with a few basic services and make it scalable, then watch and heckle as they googled around and brought up services. The objective wasn’t to complete the task though, it was too see how they approached problem solving. Good times.
Great example. We do the same but to spin up a single ec2 via terraform. Checking the real familiarity with tools. This immediately filter those who lied about their experience.