Ask HN: How would look the ideal tech interview for a DevOps/Cloud Engineer job?

4 points by jocatalin 7 years ago | 2 comments

As an engineer involved in the tech recruitment for our company, I’ve always had the goal of providing a good experience for our candidates. I try basically not to put people thought what I disliked in my past interviews.

We currently ask our applicants to do a pull request to one of our open source projects. But this is not always working as they may not be familiar with those projects/technologies.

So for jobs in this area, that involve infrastructure automation (Google cloud, AWS, Azure) deploying orchestration layers (Kubernetes, DC/OS) and automate whatever runs on top if this (CI/CD) how would your ideal interview look like?

QuinnyPig 7 years ago |

> We currently ask our applicants to do a pull request to one of our open source projects.

"We currently ask our applicants to volunteer for one of our marketing efforts." I'd claim unfamiliarity with it too.

If you want to test skills, give them a toy problem to implement. If you want them to do something of value to your company, pay them.

oaf357 7 years ago |

I wouldn't even consider your company based on this alone.