Re:The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation
by jedberg on Sunday July 24, 2016 @01:20PM
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> I have over a decade of experience building web apps.
Were you also running those apps? SRE means you understand the intricacies of running an app too.
When I hire SREs, I look for people who have the following skills, in this order:
1. Leadership under pressure. What I mean is can you stay cool and calm and keep everyone around you cool and calm when everything is melting down
2. Experience operating a platform. Do you know basics like networking, system startup, system and OS tuning, etc. Can you diagnose a problem on a running instance?
3. Coding. Can you write decent code and can you understand good code.
The reason it is in that order is because staying cool under pressure is something I can't really teach you, it's just sort of innate for the most part.
Coding can be learned.
I've been having a really hard time finding a job due to being a 'jack of all trades' and having no specialty. Just an assumption. I have over a decade of experience building webapps.
I've spent over 500 hrs on interviews over the past 3 months doing countless coding tests/exercises, whiteboard interviews. I just seem to never get past on-site interviews.