Skill assessment

Assess DevOps skills by actions

Measure real troubleshooting skills with live incidents.

Deadnodes gives a clear signal on DevOps skill through real incident tasks.

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

Check practical troubleshooting

See real troubleshooting behavior instead of theory.

Commands
Decisions
Outcomes

Use the same conditions for everyone

Use for hiring loops or internal skill checks.

Hiring
Promotions
Team readiness

Review gaps from actions

Run a scenario and get scored outcomes.

Scoring
Run history
Repeatable incidents

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.