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It’s a warning. If they call it that, be wary of signing on. Unless, you know, you like doing ops work all day every day.
by rachelbythebay 7y ago
It’s a warning. If they call it that, be wary of signing on.
Unless, you know, you like doing ops work all day every day.
- 0x445442 7y agoI could only wish the distinction was explicit. It's been my experience that they don't call it that but instead expect the application developers to handle everything which leads to a big ball of configuration management mud.
- maps7 7y agoI just saw a job description with a Software Engineer title and had this as the description: "looking for an amazing Engineer who will be responsible for the design, implementation, configuration and support of the software product; including specifying, provisioning and operating our cloud infrastructure" It's a good company but I probably won't apply because I've no idea if I would be coding or provisioning cloud infrastructure.
- _bxg1 7y agoI recently did a round of interviews at different companies, most of them small-ish (<100 people). I'm a "pure developer" without any real experience in AWS/Docker/Kubernetes. Even for just plain "Software Engineer" roles, this was consistently a negative mark for me as a candidate. Not an automatic deal breaker, but I think it made the difference in a couple of cases.
- askafriend 7y ago> It's a good company but I probably won't apply because I've no idea if You could ask them when you talk to them...
- maps7 7y agoI've been in my current job for 7/8 years so not really sure how the interview process works. I saw the ad on LinkedIn and it looks like the only option to proceed is to send a CV.