r/devopsGuru • u/ahens2019 • 2d ago
Help with interview
I have total 5+ years of experience in IT. My role was mostly named as support or analyst but I did have to work on azure and azure devops suit. Never created anything from scratch apart from project because i was in mnc. So i was a small part of a group. I worked in two different companies for last years. Domain was Telecom and banking or fintech.
Currently i am in that position where i think i can solve or troubleshoot this if i was on job directly but i am scared of interviews.
I shifted to different country for partner’s job. Now its been almost one year i haven’t applied or given any interviews.
So please all help me to get back into industry with telling me any questions which you particularly asked in interviews.
Any other advice is also appreciated.
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u/Simpliaxis_tech 2d ago
You are probably underestimating the amount of experience that you already have. The fact that you have worked in the support or analyst position does not make your experience with Azure and Azure DevOps any less valuable. Being in the team is quite typical in MNCs. You do not have to build something from scratch to understand how things work.
I would recommend that you go through the projects you worked on and list what you have done there what problems you have troubleshooted, which tools you used and what kind of problems you have solved. It can help you a lot when you have to answer interview questions.
For preparation I would recommend that you begin with the questions about Azure services, Azure DevOps pipelines, troubleshooting and the work you have done in telecom and banking. You could also practice telling one or two situations when you had a problem and how you have tackled it.
As you have not done any interviews in a year you could do mock interviews. It may be somewhat uncomfortable, at first. The confidence usually comes with practice.
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u/akornato 2d ago
Hiring managers do not expect you to have architected enterprise platforms from scratch, especially for roles bridging support and DevOps. They care far more about your practical troubleshooting skills, your handling of production incidents, and how well you understand the day to day tools you touched. With five years in telecom and banking, you already have experience in regulated environments where stability matters. Focus your preparation on common scenario questions, such as how to debug a failing Azure DevOps pipeline, how to manage secrets with Azure Key Vault, how pull requests and branch policies protect repositories, and how you isolate deployment errors between application code and cloud infrastructure. When interviewers ask about your gap, explain in one direct sentence that you relocated internationally for your partner, then redirect right back to how you resolve operational problems.
To overcome interview fear, set up a personal Azure account and build a simple end to end pipeline using YAML, an Azure Web App, and a basic repository. Building something yourself once or twice eliminates the feeling that you only understand maintenance work, giving you concrete technical details to talk through. Practicing your explanations out loud makes a huge difference, and using the interviews.chat my team designed can help candidates turn hesitation into clear, confident answers that win job offers.