It's downright crazy the state of DevOps hiring lately at least for our company.

It seems like every other candidate we interviewed is nothing more than a hobbyist tinkerer, they're not Devs, they're not Ops experts, they're dilettantes who stumbled into DevOps because it's the hot term and somehow got in during 2020-2022 market craze

Asked bunch of them the difference between application and network load balancers it was like speaking a foreign language. And SSL termination and how ingress controller works might as well be rocket science to this crowd. Okay you are not Ops expert, maybe Dev.. but then asking a simple FizzBuzz trips them like I'd asked them to calculate the trajectory for a Mars landing.

We ended up hiring a guy cuz we could get anyone decent.. Comedy Gold: He kept trying to pull container image for days and complained that something is broken until we told him that its not possible to pull Images from Private container repos without a Key. Just look into k8s logs, they also tell you that you need a damn secret.

And sure, a formal CS education isn't a must-have, but would it kill these folks to do some reading? although most of them have AWS/k8s certs.