Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?

Post by pcthrowaway » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

anuragsoni wrote: post #10

aosmith wrote: post #8

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It just felt wrong, thanks for letting me know. Seems weird to run an orchestration system in another one. Fly wasn't meant to be a VPS / server host and using it as one seems odd to me.

I don't work for fly, but I'll say that while the end-user of fly.io isn't expected to run an orchestration system, fly.io themselves runs an orchestration system (nomad from what I can tell), so it seems like a fairly reasonable idea for a take home evaluation for an infrastructure role at the company to evaluate skills/knowledge about orchestration systems.

Post by kasey_junk » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 9:15 PM UTC

pcthrowaway wrote: post #11

anuragsoni wrote: post #10

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I don't work for fly, but I'll say that while the end-user of fly.io isn't expected to run an orchestration system, fly.io themselves runs an orchestration system (nomad from what I can tell), so it seems like a fairly reasonable idea for a take home evaluation for an infrastructure role at the company to evaluate skills/knowledge about orchestration systems.

They posted maybe 6 months ago that they were migrating from Nomad to K8s (and expected it to take a while) so it's possible they're not on Nomad anymore.

Post by aosmith » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 12:57 AM UTC

detaro wrote: post #12

aosmith wrote: post #3

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I was applying for a infra role and they asked me to setup an app and ELK stack in nomad on fly.io... I don't think their target market has infrastructure people and it just feels like Russian dolls.

I don't get the problem. If you applied for an infra role, you are clearly not representing their target market, but they want you to show an infra thing on some VMs. And it makes sense for them to let you run those VMs on their platform, where they can easily pay for it?

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 2:46 AM UTC

aosmith wrote: post #15

detaro wrote: post #12

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I don't get the problem. If you applied for an infra role, you are clearly not representing their target market, but they want you to show an infra thing on some VMs. And it makes sense for them to let you run those VMs on their platform, where they can easily pay for it?

Fly is a no infra platform like heroku. It's like being asked to setup k8s on heroku.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 2:49 AM UTC

aosmith wrote: post #3

mbrain wrote: post #2

I've also had a not so cool experience with them, the interviewer canceled 30 mins before the call and mentioned they will send an email to reschedule tomorrow. That was in September 2021, haven't heard back again :)

I was applying for a infra role and they asked me to setup an app and ELK stack in nomad on fly.io... I don't think their target market has infrastructure people and it just feels like Russian dolls.