Can someone decode the term "non-traditional hire"? I'm sure I knew what this meant at one point but forgot.
Typically means someone without traditional credentials, such as a college degree or any work experience.
School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads
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#12with cloud being the talk of the industry these days. how pervasive are SRE roles. I would wager a good system admin | SRE can save a company thousands if they provisioned their own hardware i.e colo instead of cloud instances etc
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#13Could you actually get an SRE job if you went through this?
Oddly, the Linked-in SRE interview is more challenging, than this.
Although the degree of difficulty w.r.t a question may differ, I think being proficient in these concepts can get you a job. It’s just that most of us struggle with solving problems(in an interview). I think these concepts cover pretty much everything a SRE would need to know.
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#14with cloud being the talk of the industry these days. how pervasive are SRE roles. I would wager a good system admin | SRE can save a company thousands if they provisioned their own hardware i.e colo instead of cloud instances etc
For LinkedIn that number can be 7+ figures saved per year by a single employee.
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#15Can someone decode the term "non-traditional hire"? I'm sure I knew what this meant at one point but forgot.
Typically means someone without traditional credentials, such as a college degree or any work experience.
Wish the article would explicitly spell it out. It wasn't obvious from reading it that traditional == college degree (or work experience).
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#16Could you actually get an SRE job if you went through this?
You could probably at least get a phone interview if you did...
This is just positioned weirdly. They use it for on-boarding, which means you already got the job without knowing it or only partially knowing it, so it's not a hard requirement. The real requirement is the ability to learn. But if that's true, they shouldn't have much trouble finding people to train into SREs:
>Because of the lack of these resources, we felt that individuals have a tough time getting into open positions in the industry
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#17with cloud being the talk of the industry these days. how pervasive are SRE roles. I would wager a good system admin | SRE can save a company thousands if they provisioned their own hardware i.e colo instead of cloud instances etc
You still need SREs for using cloud services at large scale, and they can manage more cloud infrastructure per person than if it was colocated
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#18with cloud being the talk of the industry these days. how pervasive are SRE roles. I would wager a good system admin | SRE can save a company thousands if they provisioned their own hardware i.e colo instead of cloud instances etc
Yep. We run almost all our systems on our own hardware. (We do use cloud VMs for random things.) It is much cheaper.
Running our primary DB cluster in AWS for a month costs more than the purchase price of the hardware the cluster runs on.
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#19Could you actually get an SRE job if you went through this?
You could probably at least get a phone interview if you did...
I don't really understand, how going through this will get you a phone interview? I mean, it doesn't change anything on your resume...
Source: I'm a new grad, I went through almost all this, but my application wasn't shortlisted.
Not a native speaker, so maybe I just don't understand what you're saying.
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#20with cloud being the talk of the industry these days. how pervasive are SRE roles. I would wager a good system admin | SRE can save a company thousands if they provisioned their own hardware i.e colo instead of cloud instances etc
Do you think SRE talent isn't needed for cloud?
There is an incredible number of metrics around every AWS service, and the decoupling of things via queues, topics, APIs etc. mean there are a lot of moving parts.