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You don’t know PowerShell

We’ve been doing a lot of interviewing at work of late. You see, we’re looking for good Windows DevOps candidates, and the local market is… well… let’s just say that next-gen Windows guys are a little thin on the ground around here.

This is a problem. Because while next-gen windows candidates are thin on the ground, resumés claiming next-gen Windows skills are emphatically not thin on the ground. In fact, I have actually – literally – lost count of the number of resumés I’ve seen where PowerShell is touted as a key skill, only for the candidate to fail some very simple PowerShell questions in the initial screening. So let’s just run through a few basic principles so that we don’t all waste each other’s time.

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