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Product thinking, technical deep-dives, and hiring industry commentary from the SkillBricks team. New posts when we have something worth saying.
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Why we built SkillBricks: the credential problem in hiring
Resumes reward prestige, not skill. SkillBricks replaces the CV with proof from real environments, so the people with the skills get the interviews.
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The hidden cost of HackerRank-style assessments
Coding-puzzle screens filter for test-takers, not engineers. Here is what they miss, why senior candidates skip them, and what to measure instead.
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How to prove your DevOps skills without a CKA
The CKA is not the only way to show you can run Kubernetes in production. Here is what actually signals DevOps competence, and five things you can start doing this week.
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How we built real-time Kubernetes challenges in a browser
A technical walk through the architecture behind browser-based Kubernetes labs at SkillBricks - xterm.js, Socket.IO, a dedicated assessment gateway, gVisor-sandboxed candidate pods on a separate execution cluster, tmux for disconnect survival, and the design choices we refused to shortcut.
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Welcome to the SkillBricks blog
What we are building, why we are building it, and how the blog will work during the launch build.
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What recruiters actually look at in a DevOps candidate profile
A reality-check on how DevOps and SRE profiles get screened. Where the six seconds go, what senior hiring managers actually care about, and how to stop optimising for signals nobody reads.
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