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The DevOps Career Handbook

By : John Knight, Nate Swenson
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The DevOps Career Handbook

By: John Knight, Nate Swenson

Overview of this book

DevOps is a set of practices that make up a culture, and practicing DevOps methods can make developers more productive and easier to work with. The DevOps Career Handbook is filled with hundreds of tips and tricks from experts regarding every step of the interview process, helping you save time and money by steering clear of avoidable mistakes. You’ll learn about the various career paths available in the field of DevOps, before acquiring the essential skills needed to begin working as a DevOps professional. If you are already a DevOps engineer, this book will help you to gain advanced skills to become a DevOps specialist. After getting to grips with the basics, you'll discover tips and tricks for preparing your resume and online profiles and find out how to build long-lasting relationships with the recruiters. Finally, you'll read through interviews which will give you an insight into a career in DevOps from the viewpoint of individuals at different career levels. By the end of this DevOps book, you’ll gain a solid understanding of what DevOps is, the various DevOps career paths, and how to prepare for your interview.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: A Career in DevOps
5
Section 2: The Application Process
10
Section 3: Interview Process
13
Section 4: Tips, Tricks, and Interviews

Non-typical interview walk-through

While most interviews tend to fall into a pattern, occasionally, you will encounter something out of the norm that is worth highlighting. In this section, we will cover pre-screening tests, out-of-the-box designs, and example questions such as the infamous Tell me a time when formatted question.

Tests

First, let's start with pre-screening tests. Some companies want to know your personality type and will want you to take a personality test ahead of time. This can range from one page where you evaluate five words you identify with, to long 15+ question exams.

Sometimes, this is paired with a cognitive test, which is like a traditional IQ test, albeit with a lot less time dedicated to this. I have taken the Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test (CCAT) several times, and it is 50 questions in 15 minutes. Only once did I finish all 50, and there was a generous amount of guessing to get that done. The questions range from math and logic questions...