Faultybox — The interview where the system is actually down

Why it surfaced

Faultybox replaces the usual coding exercise with a browser terminal, a genuine injected fault, and a replay of every command and wrong turn. Its distinctive promise is to grade not only whether the system recovers, but also the blast radius of the fix.

A DevOps hiring assessment that puts candidates in a live, broken Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Terraform, or Prometheus environment and evaluates how they recover it.