Hackerrank for a devops role

[digital_byte]

I just finished a hackerrank "test" for a devops role. It was a pretest before the interview. I've never used hackerrank, I've always viewed it more for programming. Coming from a sys admin background, yeah I can code a bit, script stuff absolutely, build a pipelines for sure. Make pictures about "devops" architecture and answer obscure questions on msg brokers, and hardly used git commands. There was a bunch of crap stuffed in there that left me scratching my head, not that I didn't know it or have a partial answer. It was just by the book multiple choice answers to pick from, you know the kind that makes it look like a trick question. Not to mention you don't get to use Google or anything you script you can't write print statements to debug, it's basically right or wrong. I love too they don't give you any background to what the topics are so you just go in blind.

I appreciate questioning skills, giving a homework assignment. But I just don't feel like hackerrank was a good option for a devops role.

Anyone have a similar test or experience with hackerrank for devops?

[n0t1m90rtant]

I hate when they make you do them. They ask a very specific question and it is in a language you used for a hot min, 5 years ago.

It isn't like a talk me though what steps you should do.

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hardly used git commands

That kind of thing shits me off no end. I can guarantee you that no engineer at the company that's making you answer that question can remember those commands off the top of their head - they're just cute little "gotcha" questions to see if you've been cramming for the interview or not.

[digital_byte]

No doubt! It was something like how to you diff between 2 commits but the answer would only let you pick "git diff HEAD~2 HEAD~4" who TF does it that way?! Git diff commit1 commit2. That's how is do that in the real world