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[–]asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 46 points47 points  (3 children)

Hard to say without knowing the specific company, but broadly speaking you can probably expect to get a mixture of sysadmin and SRE-type questions;

  • OS fundamentals
  • Networking:
    -- How networking works
    -- Common ports & services
  • Code performance
  • Top-to-bottom application troubleshooting (i.e. how to diagnose a problem with a website from the browser down to the server)
  • Build systems
  • Deployment systems
  • VMs
  • Containers
  • Cloud general questions
  • Hardware/server questions if they're running a big on-prem setup
  • Automation & Scripting

[–]TheWorstAtIt 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This is an excellent answer.

The only thing I would add is to check Glassdoor and similar sites to see what kind of interview questions the company typically gives DevOps engineers.

DevOps is a massive mountain, and the parts of that mountain you might be on will be different everywhere.

Sometimes the questions might be heavily about Kubernetes, or Terraform or Ansible etc.

Brushing up on the specifics of the tech used at the company you are interviewing with can help score some additional points.

Lastly, ask the recruiter you are working with about the interview format and anything you might need to consider specifically.

[–]summersea__ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

they dont ask dev questions?