It's very easy to get attention by recruiters on LinkedIn, but my experience has been that, even if I am angling for a product development position, the vast ma

It's very easy to get attention by recruiters on LinkedIn, but my experience has been that, even if I am angling for a product development position, the vast majority of the interview requests will be for support work. I sampled the 48 recruiters who reached out to me from October 1 through the 31 and 45 of them either explicitly listed the role as an SRE, or a more vague 'DevOps' that resolved into support work after some inquiry. I didn't understand what these job classes meant three years ago when I was getting frustrated, and was surprised that I could find a job within a week. Panic really hit me when it dawned on me that I had given up a pure developer job for a pure on-call pager rotation job. I learned a lot very quickly from that screw up.