I think that if a site asks you to fill a form along with attaching a résumé, then it's a scam, and they're just using you to train their AI.
A network engineer in search of greener pastures
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Re: A network engineer in search of greener pastures
#72I am aware that the font is a divisive choice, lol. I wanted it to look like my scribbles on the page, because that's exactly what it is. Most people I know who read my blog use RSS anyway, and reader mode is a thing that exists.
However, reading over some of these comments, maybe I'll switch it back to Quicksand.
Edit: Fine, I changed it to improve readability.
Re: A network engineer in search of greener pastures
#73Re: A network engineer in search of greener pastures
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
those "operational" jobs exists today. just not in the small startups, that still didn't figure out, that despite running in the cloud you need networking and cybersecurity people
As a startup CTO, I agree you need networking And cybersecurity. I am not sure if you need fulltime people specializing in this though. I used to work for large companies with big on-prem footprint. Networking and security in that world is a different game and warrants dedicated people. But for a startup with two services running in the cloud, with so many out of the box tools? (IDS, WAF, log based monitoring, SDN an…
>As a startup CTO, I agree you need networking And cybersecurity. I am not sure if you need fulltime people specializing in this though.
highly depends on function of the service and it's scale
>I used to work for large companies with big on-prem footprint. Networking and security in that world is a different game and warrants dedicated people.
>But for a startup with two services running in the cloud, with so many out of the box tools? (IDS, WAF, log based monitoring, SDN and all the configurability that comes with it). That can go a long way, without dedicated people.
maybe for network. but in my experience most of engineering (starting with junior developers and ending with vp/cto level) doesn't understand cybersecurity specifically or security in general . so even if there is tooling available, people don't understand when, how or most important why to use them.
Re: A network engineer in search of greener pastures
#75It's an incredible security risk to have asked my address, work history, contact info, sometimes my SSN and demographics, and have me trust that you won't have that leaked. I have immediately closed applications asking for a SSN. You know you are going to reject all but one of the candidates. Why are you hoarding this PII? Is it just an implicit way to reject immigrants? Also the ones that ask for sexual preference (…
> Also the ones that ask for sexual preference (or however it is worded to get you to say straight/gay/other). The goal is to hire someone other than a pedestrian straight white male, of course. They can't outright say it.
That's actually not true. At a certain size of company and especially if the company does work for the federal government they are required to gather demographic information to ensure they are trying to not just have a bunch of white dudes applying for their job. Those questions should not influence the hiring process at all (if they do then it's illegal since those are protected traits).
If you don't want to answer them then just answer it by stating you don't want to tell them. It's an option on every application I applied too.
Re: A network engineer in search of greener pastures
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#77I am aware that the font is a divisive choice, lol. I wanted it to look like my scribbles on the page, because that's exactly what it is. Most people I know who read my blog use RSS anyway, and reader mode is a thing that exists. However, reading over some of these comments, maybe I'll switch it back to Quicksand. Edit: Fine, I changed it to improve readability.
The font makes this practically unreadable for dyslexic folks.
Re: A network engineer in search of greener pastures
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's that but there's also this: > However, after heading over to Y Combinator to check out startup jobs, I was again frustrated by the findings. YC Jobs has a category for Engineering, but it's all software. There's a category for Operations, but it's all CEO, CTO, management positions. After searching and searching I was unable to find any listings for any network or cybersecurity jobs along the sysadmin/enginee…
“the people that used to cable and connect servers are not as important anymore” What an arrogant take. As someone who does this, and is also a self-taught, no-degree-having troglodyte, I am forced to completely disagree. Your cloud servers are built by people. That you don’t value those people says WAY more about you than anything else. I understand the abstraction— but that isn’t gonna matter when the PDUs are offl…
They're all centralized now, though. It used to be that every medium-to-large business needed in-house networking expertise and ran their own small data centers, or at least ran a server room that required a couple full-time people to manage. Now everything is cloud-hosted, and those kinds of jobs have all but vanished, unless you work at your regional AWS data center.
Offices don't even need simple cable runs and switches/routers anymore. A basic consumer-level network connection and ISP-provided WiFi AP are all the vast majority of businesses need. Everyone has a laptop and there's nothing to plug in or manage.
Re: A network engineer in search of greener pastures
#79"I noted, too, that some of these rejections came instantly after turning in an application. [...] I determined that I was automatically being filtered because I didn't have a college degree. Sure, the job posting says it's required, but you do know I have more experience than the average college student my age, right?" Sure, I never studied medicine and the hospital stated that they are looking for a doctor, but the…
When I started it seemed like everyone needed a MSCD or some certification but then people figured out how to cheat and made them worthless.
License requirements for those professions you listed are for safety of the public (and for the worker in the case of electricians). Without a basic level of understanding electricity will kill you. Without knowledge of the body you will kill the patient.
Doctors, Lawyers, etc can act as notary so they are given additional powers and must follow a code of conduct.
Anyone can lay concrete, anyone can chop down trees, can paint/grass cut, lay tiles or put in a new floor. Electrical or Plumbing require a license because it would be dangerous not to.
Lawyers, accountants, financial planners, etc are licenses because they represent a public trust.
I don't think developers fit into any of these categories. Scientists or artists do not need a license to do their craft. CEOs don't need a license either.
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#80Not to step on the authors toes, but it’s not the job searching that is broken - it’s the market that has shifted to favor companies and to put applicants at a disadvantage, something that hasn’t happened in the IT field for a long time. People reject candidates without a college degree because they can afford to - they still have plenty of applicants to pick from after filtering out the rest. There is no need for th…
There's that but there's also this: > However, after heading over to Y Combinator to check out startup jobs, I was again frustrated by the findings. YC Jobs has a category for Engineering, but it's all software. There's a category for Operations, but it's all CEO, CTO, management positions. After searching and searching I was unable to find any listings for any network or cybersecurity jobs along the sysadmin/enginee…
I think the cloud's impact on the hiring market is steeply underrated from what I've seen in the discussions. More business seems (to me, anyway) to be ran by cobbling together these services rather than developing technology in house. Unfortunately this devalues more general skills like networking, security, DBA, SWE, etc. for proprietary stack specializations.