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>Companies that ask leet coding questions for DevOps probably have no idea what they're looking for and probably don't know what they're doing.

I think it's a more a case of cargo culting rather than not necessarily knowing what they are doing, although that might also be the case in some instances.

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If you’re cargo culting do you really know what you’re doing though? I’d think the two situations are mutually exclusive. Or were cargo cults actually effective at getting supplies dropped from the sky?

Cargo-culting is literally not knowing what you're doing.

What i meant is that they are cargo culting in their interviewing method but this does not necessarily mean that they don't know what they are doing day to day.

Cargo culting is knowing exactly what you are doing, but having a completely incorrect understanding of the potential result.

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