# He cracked DevOps Intern + Full time in just 2 Interviews ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Abhishek.Veeramalla - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh1JPctvGXc - **Дата:** 09.05.2026 - **Длительность:** 28:04 - **Просмотры:** 5,023 - **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/50060 ## Описание Join our discord server for career guidance or doubts: www.youtube.com/abhishekveeramalla/join Free Course on the channel ============================== - DevOps Zero to Hero Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdpzxOOAlwvIKMhk8WhzN1pYoJ1YU8Csa - AWS Zero to Hero Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdpzxOOAlwvLNOxX0RfndiYSt1Le9azze - Azure Zero to Hero Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdpzxOOAlwvIcxgCUyBHVOcWs0Krjx9xR - Terraform Zero to Hero Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdpzxOOAlwvI0O4PeKVV1-yJoX2AqIWuf - Python for DevOps Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdpzxOOAlwvKwTyYNJCUwGPvql0TrsPgv About me: ======== Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abhishekveeramalla_official/ Telegram Channel : https://t.me/abhishekveeramalla LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-veeramalla GitHub: https://github.com/iam-veeramalla Medium: https://abhishekveeramalla-av.medium.com/ Disclaimer: Unauthorized copying, re ## Транскрипт ### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) [] Hello everyone, my name is Abhishek and welcome back to my channel. So today I have AJ with me. AJ is graduating this summer and AJ recently got internship and full-time position in DevOps and cloud. In this podcast, let's try to interact with AJ and let's try to understand his journey and by the end of this video trust me you will have a lot to take back. AJ, hi welcome to the channel. Hi Abishek. — And do you want to introduce yourself? — Uh yeah uh I am Aay Prakash. I am currently in my eighth semester BTech at AI University Bangalore. Uh I recently got placed at Exact Space as a DevOps intern. — Perfect. So AJ u this is a question that lot of people have. Firstly, let me ask you the question like why did you choose DevOps? See, uh especially uh when you're in your seventh semester, eth semester, your obvious choice is to learn DSA system design and get to a developer position. So, what made you choose DevOps? Um so I um started off um from my second semester of my engineering. I started off uh with my u like since we had all the uh core courses like fullstack development, a IML. So I explored all the domains. Uh but I was not like interested in any one of them. — Mhm. — Uh okay. like I okay you cannot say interested but uh I was not into it completely I was just doing it uh using the help of chad GPT and all like in our engineering days we had chpt uh so we used to do all the projects and all using chad GPT and I somewhat didn't uh it didn't excite me much and also with um DevOps like uh you asked me how I got interested in DevOps So building an application is fine. Okay, you can build an application. Uh but then after building the application uh how it reaches to the end customers and I also got introduced to your videos during my fourth semester. — Okay. — So that was the time I was like okay let me try with DevOps and also in my college um we had a course on AWS. Uh so it was from basic to advanced. — Oh nice. — Uh and yeah and uh we had got AWS access uh through our college email ID. — Okay. — So it was just not theory theory. Uh we had the practical exposure towards AWS as well. So at that point of time I didn't know that I would be inclined towards DevOps so much. I just studied that. — Okay. uh and did all the practical um uh workshops. But uh after that um during uh and like any every other engineering student does who is from CS, I started off my DSA journey as well. — Uh but um I yeah I also started lead code and hacker rank everything. Uh but when companies used to come to college for um hiring uh the level of DSA questions they asked was uh way too high and probably I was not able to solve those and this happened uh in the last uh last September last year September. So I was like I had two options either to expert uh DSA uh to master DSA or to find a niche and then excel in that. So these were two options that I had. But again I started your uh DevOps zero to her course uh in October last year. October 1 I think September end October I started — I took roughly about 40 days to complete that whole uh course. — Yeah because I had my college going on my classes also going on so I had to manage time. — Yeah. — Yeah. I started off with that and then I uh had my um internal assessments college. So I also started with your AWS course. I yeah altogether I was able to finish that by um December and December I had my end some uh seventh semester end semester exams I had. So after that um I started with ### Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) [5:00] your Terraform series also. — I finished the Terraform series and then um I was actually in a dilemma and at that point of time I spoke to few of my cousins and um relatives in my family. They also work in the IT industry. So they uh told me about the job market right now like they are not they were like uh it's important for you to first enter the industry then to be um specific about your role. — That's good sgest actually. Yeah. — Yeah. because uh at this point of time I had also started applying for um uh DevOps positions, interns, intern positions on LinkedIn, no yeah on indeed you have all of these — but how many people like uh let me ask this question. So in your college or uh in your class whatever you call it — how many people were inclined towards development and different streams like devops, data engineering do you have any number? — Uh I mean most of them have gone for HD roles or fullstack development roles. — Uh and I know a few of them who have gone for data engineering roles, a IML related roles. Um but um DevOps I think I'm not sure I think uh I am the only one from DevOps I call it — I think so I'm not sure of this. — Did that help actually like being the only one uh being the oddman out so when you started giving the interviews like you were talking about your eth semester December you started giving the interviews — did that help? uh initially uh there were hardly any companies coming for DevOps intern and full-time roles. — Okay. — Uh so in uh from last year August till uh this year April there were only two companies uh which came for um DevOps intern and full-time positions. — Okay. — Uh so the first company that came um I had an online interview with them. Uh so um over there I was not able to clear that interview. Um even though I felt uh I was little underprepared for that. I mean it was my first ever DevOps interview. So I had just referred your videos and uh had gone but uh they asked me a little more than what was uh needed. Got — it. Uh — their expectations were a little high from an intern. So I was not able to clear that. Uh but yeah this uh company I uh it got listed in college um app on um March 9th and uh on April 17th I got the offer letter. — How many people applied along with you? — Uh um there were around 21 I think 21 to 25 people who applied with me. less number right when you compare with development position I think that must be around 250 500 also — yeah yeah — uh did you also prepare for any external interviews like outside your college did you start building your LinkedIn profile or any journey around uh outside preparation like outside application — uh yes um like whatever I used to learn through your course uh through your playlist I used to document everything on LinkedIn. — Mhm. — So I have also put um screenshots of the projects that I have done and I have also posted it on LinkedIn. — Good. — So uh now like when you applied for this company uh how was your preparation for this like uh what were their expectations? What did you apply? Uh how was your resume preparation? — Yeah. U coming to my resume, I um again referred your videos and uh um got my resume properly done and I also had a call with Mantish uh who was one of your um — uh he was on one of your podcast. — Yeah. — So I um actually spoke to him once. uh he also gave me a few inputs as to um uh change my resume a little bit. Uh so I uh took his input and I also changed it. And then the projects uh I mentioned were um the EKS project uh the Got it. — 2048 application game application. — Game application. Yeah. — That deploying that on the EKS cluster. Uh second one was AWS cost optimization. H very good project. Yeah. ### Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00) [10:00] — Yeah. And the third one was uh the complete CCICD pipeline of Yeah. how an application is deployed. — So when you were talking about these projects uh were the interviewers excited like did they ask you how did you like because you know these projects are something that experienced engineers usually talk about. So did they ask you about okay one thing you referred the videos but did they ask you about your preparation like did you run into any issues how did you implement them on cloud or on premises uh how was the interview conversation — uh actually the interview conversations were very like I never felt it was an interview it was basically like a conversation that we had — uh so they asked me about my so initially the first round of interview was online. — Okay. — Um yeah. So uh the first round was online and uh in that uh they asked me about um the basic docker concepts — and Kubernetes concepts um and they asked me about shell scripting, bash scripting and also the commands. And once I cleared that round of interview then uh next round I had it in office. So I had to go to the office and then there I um mentioned about my projects also. Uh they asked me about my projects and they were also asking uh what OIDC is and what I ISA is in the EKS projects. — Uh so I was able to answer. — Yeah. Because we did it. — Yeah. And then uh also uh in and as part of my eighth semester major project um in our college there's an application called mood uh which is used to give um internal assessments to students because in that platform students cannot change tabs and copy or they cannot do any — malpractice. Uh so u we uh um we actually deployed that application on the college onromise server. — Very good. — Yeah. So that was my 8th semester major project. So I even explained about that project. Uh so um yeah they were actually pretty happy with my uh experience in the project. Um but um yeah also they had given me an assignment uh again in office uh to do um that basically I had to write a docker file engine docker file — and uh um on the browser I had to show welcome to um the name. Yeah. — Um so that application was that assignment was given to me. So what actually I thought um they will not allow me to use AI tools. So this was what I thought. — Yeah. — Uh but then they told you can use any AI tool. You can uh you are free to use any AI tool but don't feel that the questions are going to be very basic. We will deep dive into the questions. — That that's actually good right because you know these days everyone work with AI. what's the point of uh the whole thing should be like — are you able to uh get the output understand the concept so yeah it's good — yeah and also what they did was they actually uh saw the prompt like how I gave the prompt to the chatbot to get the results out of it — so that was one thing which um I felt okay they're looking into all these things because usually in interviews uh I think in college I don't think they've seen all this as part like I have also interacted with few of my friends who have gone into other roles. Uh I don't think they have seen this um anywhere. — And your LinkedIn uh preparation did that help you because you said like you were active on LinkedIn right? — Did it help you in growing the network or uh — keeping yourself updated? How did it help you? Uh so yeah I mentioned about my first company right the first company which I got rejected uh yeah so there u that company was also listed on college uh but I didn't have any communication with the college uh saying that company is coming for hiring or anything but uh because um uh I knew the company and all I had messaged one of the company um employees who was a devops engineer over there And then uh he was uh he also replied back to me saying that um I had told him that I have applied to your company. Uh so if there's any chance I mean um I had told that okay if you're coming to our campus for recruitment please let me know and also let me because they had not put out ### Segment 4 (15:00 - 20:00) [15:00] any of their job descriptions. — Got it. — It was just DevOps intern. So I was like I didn't know what to prepare also. Uh so I just asked him can you please share me your JD and if there is any um and if you're coming to our campus at any point of time please let me know in advance. Uh so I had just messaged him like this. So he later um after some time he messaged me back and told that um I mean we have got a list from your college but we can have an online round for you. — Okay. — Uh to just check. — Yeah. to just check because he went through my LinkedIn profile and he saw that I am into I'm actually doing DevOps projects and on LinkedIn so that way it helped me. — Got it. — Yeah. — And uh one more thing like 20 25 people applied for the position whatever you said right? So out of these 20 25 people uh what do you think you have uh out of the box like something that made you stand out amongst the other people who gave the interview? Is it the projects or is it uh anything else? — I personally felt the projects played a very big role. — Okay. — And also in my resume I had mentioned only DevOps projects. I had not mentioned any other project or — any other Yeah. that also helped and I feel somewhere your communication skills also play a major role — uh in um getting you hired because uh in my interview also uh they focused more on communication also uh because um in my last round of interview and also with the HR they were seeing my communication skills uh like how well am I able to convey a certain message or anything such. — Got it. And anything with the communities like u were you part of any um these user groups or were you attending uh some local meetups anything like that? — Uh no I was not attending any of them. — Okay. — Uh but I was active on LinkedIn. I was seeing what is happening uh in the space of DevOps and also following your videos also. uh so that — like one suggestion that I would give okay you have already you already got an opportunity but uh that's actually good like if you try to be active in the local communities just like how you are able to reach out to someone on LinkedIn you will meet people in real right and these meetups are actually free whether it can be AWS user group or kubernetes user groups you can just go there you can interact with devops instance in the companies and probably you and say this is my profile. If you have an opportunity just let me know anytime. That will help you 10 times more. Okay. LinkedIn is definitely good but real communication, real conversation helps you much better. — Okay. And one more thing that I wanted to ask uh again this is a question that comes from lot of freshers. How did you plan your preparation like how much time you to you used to spend on theory and how much time the practical part of it? — Uh okay. So uh theory since uh I am from Btech background uh so that actually helped me like I was not starting off from scratch. So that actually helped me and few of the topics that you had mentioned like um the AWS course that I went through it was actually like a revision for me because since I had already learned in college. — Got it. — Uh so that was a revision and most of the practical part also had done in college only but yeah a few of the new things that I got to explore from your channel. Um yeah so I um the theory part it was actually um I was okay with that. I was actually more focused on projects and practical exposure towards devops — and you must be struggling sometimes with the projects like maybe you are running some project and you ran into issues. How AI help you in that aspect? Definitely you know you are watching videos on YouTube you cannot talk to the instructor. So you must be using AI, right? How did it help you? Yes, — I mean using AI it's become a part of daily life now. — Okay. — So you have to use AI tools to at least improve your efficiency in any field not just DevOps. Uh but yeah in when you are solving any bugs also it really helps. Um it's not like you're just simply copy pasting something. uh you ### Segment 5 (20:00 - 25:00) [20:00] have to just also know what exactly you're doing even though you're copying things from any chatbot you should know what it is — and uh how about the structure like do you think the structure of learning also matters a lot uh let's say someone who wants to get started — there are a lot of road maps but do you think they have to go structurally through the concepts or they have to pick a concept completely deep dive into it what is your approach uh for DevOps if I have to be specific uh you should know what the tools does. — Uh so I followed your date playlist. — Okay. The structure DevOps AWS terraform and then last I even started with your Python for DevOps course also. Uh so um yeah I feel the structure is important but uh for a fresher — um it actually um is different like they don't deep dive into concepts for freshers. — This is according to my interview experience. — Yeah. — They didn't like deep dive into any of the concepts. — Um even in my interview they asked me about OSI layers. Uh and they asked me like when you click on a um link uh what exactly happens like how is the traffic flowing through beneath — networking? — Yeah the networking concepts. So um they don't deep dive into everything but you should know um yeah so basically your course helped me a lot. Yeah, that's the thing right like for freshers and experienced person the concept are the same even I try to explain this a lot of times Kubernetes is same for everyone whether you are one year experience person or 10 years experience person — the only difference is the level of questions that they ask you on Kubernetes — right — yeah so even in Kubernetes they ask me uh to explain the architecture of Kubernetes — and um like how uh the deployment um service how they are interlin and um how labels and selectors play a key role — again the fundamentals — yeah the fundamentals actually play a very major role I felt — interesting and after all this like okay you attended few interviews and now how is your experience like what is your road map you have an internship opportunity So what else are you planning? — Uh now I am just uh like it's been like two weeks since I've been going to office. — Uh so what I mean what I'm experiencing is what we learn as from uh YouTube or from wherever it is very different to how the industry actually functions. — Exactly. Yeah. — Yeah. I mean probably the concepts may be the same uh but um how the entire structure is uh that is very it is actually a little overwhelming. Yeah, because what you learn from YouTube and other sources, these are like plain grass fields. But when you get to a company, it's quite messy. — Like you have so many teams, people, someone comes to you, asks you something else like — yeah, you have to get used to that thing. uh but since it's a um startup it'll actually help you I feel because you can get to interact with everybody in the uh space and um — that's a good part about startup so yeah like I personally enjoy because when you start your journey in a service based company you are restricted with a lot of things but when you join in a startup you have easy access to many things like you don't have that hierarchy as Like let's say you can casually talk to director of your company and when you talk to them okay it's not always about technology but you also get to know a lot of things from product point of view the domain knowledge all that is important — yes and one more thing uh after my technical interview um the last interview was with my lead the dev sec ops lead of the company uh so he was general really asking me questions. — Uh but uh one question what uh he put out was uh so basically you have an application and then you have um uh let's say you have to update a security patch to that application. — Uh so h how exactly would you do this and what would be the process for you to do this? ### Segment 6 (25:00 - 28:00) [25:00] So he asked me that and I was a little um I I actually was little confused how to answer this. — Okay. — Uh but I told okay if your applic you have to test whether the security patch is compatible if your application is compatible with the latest security patch — good — and then um if all the testing and all works then you can update it. So he again asked me will you update it right away? So I was a little confused then and then I took a little time and then I was like yeah I'll update it. But he said since you're a fresher I will take this answer but he expected me to say to follow the hierarchy in the company like to take approvals and then do it. Yeah, these are some things that you'll only get to know as you keep working in a company because you know as a fresher no one can expect that from you like okay I'll go back I'll talk to X person then I'll wait for their approval. — Yes. — And finally uh like what do you feel about resources? Um a lot of times uh people do not find enough resources. They go for uh options like paid courses. They go through different opportunities. Right. So in the world of AI, what is your take at least from your experience? Uh for refresher, are the resources on YouTube good enough? — Uh I feel YouTube is everything. I mean you can find anything and everything on YouTube. It's just that you should have that uh thing to learn. That's all. If you h and of course when you're doing anything you will face errors. you will uh have to debug things in the technical uh field. So and there are AI tools to help you that help you with that as well. Uh so and see paid courses probably people can buy paid courses for a commitment. — Uh but I don't feel it's important because on YouTube you can find everything. — Makes sense. Okay. So it's definitely nice talking to you AJ. Uh one thing that I want to uh generally add uh okay AJ definitely talked a lot about freshers their journey in this podcast but one thing I want to add upon to the conversation. If you are a fresher try to be active in the communities like today there are a lot of communities. If you just look around even on LinkedIn there are user groups like AWS, CNCF user group just go there build an exposure that will open offline opportunities for you. Online opportunities LinkedIn is the best platform for offline opportunities some of these opportunities are not even posted in the companies. So that will definitely help you and if you have any questions like the freshers journey freshers into DevOps do let me know in the comment section. I'll try to help my best. Once again, thank you so much AJ for joining.