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>>15595857
DevOps can be fun as long as the company and the developers have the right mindset about it. Developers shouldn't just write an application then "throw it over the wall" to DevOps and leave it to them to figure out how best to deploy it. Both sides need to collaborate from the beginning of architecture design before any code is even written.

But be careful, some companies just take the DevOps pill suddenly because their CTO heard the buzzword the other day on LinkedIn. Of course they have a legacy monolith application built on Windows and SQL Server 2005, and want to lift-and-shift it all "into the cloud". That job listing is a trap.

A competent company hiring for DevOps will challenge you with questions and even a practical portion (create a Docker container that does X, write some Terraform that deploys Y). If you're breezing through an interview, flip the script and challenge the interviewer with your own questions about how their current software is architected, how much they currently know about CI/CD, etc.