Assessment

DevOps Skill Assessment

Assess real troubleshooting skills with live incidents.

Evaluate engineers based on real incident response, not multiple-choice tests.

Live incidents
Standardized scoring
Run history
Interview workflows

Traditional tests

Theoretical questions
No live systems
Hard to compare
Low signal

Deadnodes assessment

Live environments
Consistent scenarios
Clear scoring
High signal

How assessment works

Candidates troubleshoot real incidents while you measure time-to-recovery and accuracy.

Incident tasks
Scoring
Run history

For hiring and teams

Use assessments for hiring loops or internal skill checks.

Hiring
Promotions
Team readiness

Immediate signal

See real troubleshooting behavior instead of theory.

Commands
Decisions
Outcomes

Deadnodes: DevOps practice labs and technical interview platform

Deadnodes helps engineers and hiring teams practice and assess real DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering skills in live browser environments.

Hands-on troubleshooting labs for Linux, Kubernetes, Postgres, networking, and CI/CD.
Live terminal scenarios with timed runs, scoring, and run history.
Technical interview meetings with secure candidate links and a task picker.
Code Playbook exercises for live coding, pseudocode, debugging, and reasoning.
AI-assisted reports that summarize candidate actions, risks, and next questions.

Key pages: /en/for-ai-agents, /en/interview, /en/tasks/browse, /en/pricing.