DevOps Career Path
Hello All, I lucked out and was hired as a DevOps about 2.5 years go. It was all going great but now I don't feel like I'm doing much DevOps related work. I feel like I need to work on the skills that will transfer over to my next position. I did a few interviews and realized that my coding skills are not up to par. So I've been spending 8+ hours a day on leetcode and algoexpert. I'm looking into grokking sys design next too. However, I'm worried that I'm spreading myself too thin as far as training goes. It's hard for me to retain information that I'm not using or if I haven't used the knowledge in a project. I was doing a lot of GCP and Kubernetes prior to this coding training. I'm wondering if I might be spending a lot of time on the wrong things. I'm interested in LIDAR/automation/robotics startups btw What kind of topics should I be spending most of my time? I managed to fail a FB phone screen for a product engineer role. The questions seem different than the typical interviews I had in my hometown. So I was really concerned about my skillset at that point. I think people and infrastructure are my strengths. My weakness is software development. I'm currently just scripting in bash and python. Are there some roles that are related to DevOps that I can pivot into for non-DevOps companies? edit: TC 150
What kind of questions were asked in the phone screening, I have one coming up and was confused about what to prepare for in general for it. Thanks
Try Triplebyte interviews as a practice and as a measure of your skills, they do a two hour tech interview at mid range difficulty. If you nail theirs and get offers, means you're almost good to go try elsewhere. Apply to SRE positions and see what they are looking for. It'll give you a clue what to learn.