Evaluate Engineers with Real-World Linux & DevOps Scenarios
Stop relying on whiteboard coding and theoretical questions. Assess technical skills with hands-on troubleshooting challenges that reveal how candidates and team members actually work under pressure.
The Assessment Platform Built for Technical Teams
Ready-to-use Linux and DevOps scenarios that give you immediate insight into real technical capabilities. No setup, no infrastructure headaches—just instant, practical assessment of the skills that matter.
Real-World Scenarios
Production-grade troubleshooting challenges across Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, and more. Each scenario mirrors actual incidents your team will face in the field.
Results Dashboard
Track performance across your entire organization. See completion rates, time-to-solve and number of clues used. Make data-driven hiring and training decisions.
Instant Assessment
No waiting for environment setup. Send candidates or team members a link and get results within minutes. Automated validation means no manual grading required for filter interviews.
Business-Exclusive Content
Access scenarios available only to business subscribers. Get unpublished challenges that test expertise in production environments.
Custom Private Scenarios
Need to test skills specific to your stack? We'll create custom scenarios tailored to your exact infrastructure, tools, and challenges. Completely private to your organization.
Flexible Pricing
Choose what works for you: monthly subscriptions for consistent use, annual plans for cost savings, or pay-per-use for seasonal hiring or training needs.
How It Works
- Create interviews for candidates or team members with specific scenarios and difficulty levels
- Users receive instant access to live Linux servers
- They troubleshoot and solve real production issues
- Optionally, you can join the candidate's session to help them or review their work
- The candidate's command log history is saved so the candidate's performance can be reviewed
- Automated validation checks their solutions
- Results appear in your dashboard immediately
- Review performance and completion details
- Make informed decisions based on actual capability
Three Ways Organizations Use SadServers
From technical interviews to internal training to AI agent development, discover how teams across industries use practical assessment to build stronger technical capabilities.
Technical Interview Assessment
Evaluate Linux SysAdmin, DevOps, and SRE candidates with scenarios that reveal real problem-solving ability, not memorized answers.
Why It Works Better Than Traditional Interviews:
- Objective evaluation: No bias, no ambiguity. Scenarios have a clear pass/fail criteria. The clues are the same for all candidates. Of course a candidate can be assessed based on other criteria besides finding the solution. Command log history from the scenario session is saved so the candidate's performance can be reviewed.
- Real-world relevance: See how candidates actually troubleshoot under time pressure, not how they perform on whiteboards.
- Time efficient: 30 minutes of hands-on work tells you more than hours of theoretical questioning.
- Stress-test skills: Identify candidates who can think systematically when facing unfamiliar problems.
- Level calibration: Use Easy, Medium, and Hard scenarios to accurately gauge experience level.
- Fairness: Save time by avoiding candidates trying to use covert AI helpers to pass job interviews.
Typical Interview Flow:
Internal Training & Team Evaluation
Upskill your engineering team, identify knowledge gaps, and run engaging technical workshops or competitions.
Training & Development Use Cases:
- Onboarding: Bring new hires up to speed on your infrastructure patterns with custom scenarios.
- Skill assessment: Identify which team members need additional training in specific technologies.
- Learning events: Host internal hackathons, lunch-and-learns, or friendly competitions.
- Knowledge retention: Regular practice keeps skills sharp between incidents.
- Team building: Collaborative solving sessions strengthen team dynamics.
- Team certifications: Help teams get professional certifications by doing practical exercises.
Event Ideas:
AI Agent Evaluation & Training
Test and train AI agents on real Linux and DevOps tasks. Benchmark autonomous systems against production-grade challenges.
Why Organizations Use SadServers for AI:
- Agent benchmarking: Measure your AI's ability to solve real sysadmin tasks, not toy problems.
- Training data: Use scenarios as structured environments for reinforcement learning.
- Capability testing: Systematically evaluate what your agents can and cannot handle.
- Regression testing: Ensure new versions maintain or improve troubleshooting performance.
- Competitive analysis: Compare your agent's performance against industry benchmarks.
- Research platform: Controlled environment for studying AI behavior in systems administration.
AI Integration:
Flexible Pricing for Every Organization
Whether you're hiring once a quarter or training teams year-round, we have a pricing model that works for you.
Monthly Subscription
Best for consistent hiring needs or ongoing team training. Cancel anytime.
Annual Plan
Committed to long-term team development? Save big with annual billing.
Pay-Per-Use
Seasonal hiring? Short-term training needs? Only pay for what you use, when you use it.
Ready to Assess Real Technical Skills?
Stop guessing about technical competence. Start measuring it with scenarios that mirror the work your team actually does.
Whether you're hiring your next SRE, training your DevOps team, or building autonomous agents, SadServers gives you the practical assessment platform you need.
Questions? Email us at info@sadservers.com
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