Who the FUCK uses Oracle Cloud?!!!?? Didnt know this shit even existed. What you're so cool and special as shit that its not enough for you to use AWS AZURE AND GCP? YOU MUST USE ORACLE CLOUD TOO? GET FUCKED. NOW I HAVE TO WASTE TIME STUDYING ORACLE CLOUD SO I CAN APPLY FOR THIS SR DEVOPS ROLE

I think I know where your problem is with interviewers.

If you go in with something you learned in a week interviewers can tell and think you are just another BSer.

Maybe pick a few things to focus on and then go in an interview saying you don't know X and X but you have lots of experience with this similarly designed Y.

Again, this is prepandemic perspective. I don't claim to know what it's currently like

OCI has massive customers.

You can't control what cloud/on prem setup you get to work with, and you can't learn them all. So just learn how they work generally, the core concepts.

DNS, load balancers, VPNs, virtual networking, compute, observability, object storage, multi tenancy setups.

Then dive into one really deep. That will get you 80% of the way there on any cloud and 99% of the way there on your cloud of choice.

@iceb how can i say that if the thing i am not familiar with is literally written in the "requirements" section? Not even the "bonus" or "nice to have" section. I would get immediately ignored. Thats why i have to bullshit and lie within limits. I say i know that bullshit with 3 yrs of experience and then in the meanteam quickly go over a 3 hour crash course to learn at least the fundamentals and concepts about it so i can know what the fuck im saying in the interview

They have a free service so I use it to host Minecraft servers.

Also several essential parts of my infrastructure due to scope creep.

i had exactly the same thought like @iceb. I would not take the requirements sections to serious. I would take the three hour crash course as well, but admit that in the Interview.

--

- do you know Oracle cloud?
- I know a lot of clouds, but haven't heard about this one. So I had a Quick glimpse.
- and what is your impression?
- i like x about it, but am unsure about y. Z is better solved in aws. But These are just my first impressions. I would love to find out more...

--

This is how a good interview sounds like. It shows honesty, curiosity, time management, motivation...
I sat at the employers side of the table in quite some interviews, and I would say this would convince me and most ppl i worked with way more than some bullshitting. Fake skills you don't have in order to learn them is fine in general, but it has to be done wisely. Not convinced? Srsy i had a couple of successfull interviews over time and in literally none of them i met the requirements they wrote beforehand and I never claimed to.

@iceb @lungdart FUCK, now the dumbass recruiter scheduled the first round of interview without my permission which is a quiz that i have to solve within 90 minutes and i need to take this quiz within 48 hours! No fucking sleep for me in the next 2 days. My mental state will become even more beyond FUCKED and FRIED NOW

@horus will take note thanks for advice

@theKarlisK @horus @gollark @lungdart

This is the quiz i have to take in less than 48 hours. If i pass this then the 60 minute technical interview starts

Any tips to pass this?

@b2plane if you don't know those technologies, and it's unproctored, cheat.

if you feel that strongly about the technology they're using - maybe you shouldn't apply for the job after all?

@lungdart i will have to be on the webcam with them so i cant get additional support or cheat

@tosensei i didnt ask to apply for that job, the recruiter asked me. I so i just went along with their bullshit and see what happens. Besides i have to strengthen my skills in these devops technologies too

@b2plane If they give you such a quiz instead of an interview it's a different mindset and recruiting process that i am used to. So I am not sure how much of what i was saying is applicable.

But just give your best. Focus on those questions where you can show your general knowledge of devops and computers and not those who ask for a very specific technology. Use text fields a lot when given to explain your thoughts. Dont spent to much energy on multiple choice things.

If you have to write some code, choose your comments wisely: don't explain the obvious but explain your thoughts. In coding challenges you have to make some assumptions, because you wrote code outside a real project. Always comment those. Two examples:

* hash = md5(password); // or whatever hsshinf algorithm the app uses
* throw new Exception('oopsie daisy') // assuming the app has a global error handler

I focus so much on code comments and text fields because those give you the chance to catch their attention before the next round of the interview and stand out of the other applicants. If they only throw multiple choice and such at you as a gate keeper, they are idiots because they won't get good hires. In this case just cheat a little bit to make sure to get the 70% and prepare for the next round.

@horus this quiz is part 1 of the interview. if i pass the quiz only then we move to part 2 of interview where they ask me technical questions for 60 minutes in devops and my past experience

@horus yes but any tips what i should pay more attention to regarding ci/cd kubernetes terraform and elasticsearch?