Devops Engineer Interview Experience - Tempe, Arizona
Process
I applied online for the role of DevOps Engineer and received an email to schedule an initial phone screen with the recruiter. After the phone call, I was given a take-home coding test via email with a deadline of a few hours. The coding challenge was simple; it required parsing a log file and printing relevant information. Within minutes of submitting the code, I received a standard rejection letter. Upon follow-up, I was told to go back and read the instructions. The code worked fine, printing all the information requested in the instructions, but I believe I missed one instruction that was not very clear.
I considered following up again, but given how rude the initial email was, I decided against it. I felt like I had wasted my time working on the problem.
This is not my first negative experience with the company. Previously, I applied for the position of Site Reliability Engineer. I had two rounds of interviews: the first with the recruiter and the second with the hiring manager. The hiring manager round mostly consisted of 'yes/no' questions and queries like 'rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 in various tools and technologies.' It concluded with the question, 'What is the internet?' I never heard back.
Quite sad and disappointing.
Questions
What is the Internet?
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Success Rate
GoDaddy's interview process for their Devops Engineer roles in Tempe, Arizona is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for GoDaddy's Devops Engineer interview process in Tempe, Arizona.
GoDaddy Work Experiences
- 5.0Best company ever!Devops Engineer • Current EmployeeSofia, Sofia (city), BulgariaDecember 28, 2023Pros: The management are qualified engineers, and the product we build is actually good. Everyone is very professional and does their best.Cons: The salaries are a bit lower than the standard here, but we have a bunch of other benefits that make up for it.
- 5.0Great Company, Salary, TeamDevops Engineer • Current EmployeeKharkiv, UkraineMay 10, 2023Pros: Good company, good salary, good team.Cons: No cons found on this company.
- 3.0Good as could be expected, with downsides common for a large corporationDevops Engineer • Former EmployeeMay 3, 2023Pros: - Decent bonuses - Good values & culture. - Nice office perks. - Unlimited PTO. These were in my work area, no guarantees on existing systemically: - Lack of office politics; focus and recognition are based on contribution. - Excellent peers. - Decent to good immediate managers.Cons: "Raises" adjusted for inflation are yearly pay cuts. Job security and loyalty seem to be a thing of the past. Extensive system knowledge and 9 years of working up through the ranks only to be dismissed in a mass reduction of force that surprised and demoralized my peers. Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing vibes. Mandates were passed from internal teams to product teams without any acknowledgement of incurred cost, such as increasing headcount to meet demands or changing the roadmap of product milestone dates. Some examples are CI/CD platform transitions, coding language transitions, data source transitions, metric reporting transitions, logging transitions, as well as frequent transitions of OS image, infrastructure versions, and detected vulnerabilities. Product teams that take internal requirements seriously (like the one I was on) are overwhelmed by the effort delegated to them, and there is a good chance the product teams that are able to perform well are ignoring many internal requirements. Schizophrenic product decisions. Create a product to design, then switch to a new streamlined product that was never intended to see use, then abandon the first product to create a nearly identical product. Customer feedback is solicited, then ignored, severely limiting the value of the product. I concede I could be missing data driving these decisions, but as an engineer, it feels bad when your hard work is wasted by decisions above your pay grade.
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