The current market has me absolutely terrified. Twitter was one of my dream companies to work for because, for anyone unfamiliar, they had incredible open sourc

The current market has me absolutely terrified. Twitter was one of my dream companies to work for because, for anyone unfamiliar, they had incredible open source projects and the complexity/reqs of running it were intense. I love the challenge of scaling systems, it's like building fast cars and squeezing what you can out of what you've got. The market getting flooded with thousands of Twitter, Meta, Google, etc SWE/SREs who can work at scale has seriously constricted what felt like was finally sysadmins/engs being appreciated for what they do. I've also heard of people getting THOUSANDS of resumes. I was hiring 2 SRE 1s last year and barely received any at all. Unless my Recruiter got thousands and filters that well. This WAS before a ton of Meta/G/etc layoffs though. I wonder if they've flooded the market now. I had both hired by I believe last summer, so prior to a bunch of layoffs. I didn't expect them to know much more beyond a computer and a thirst to learn/program. I'm self-taught as is my entire team. We didn't need Stanford grads. We hired a previous IT Admin who had never touched distsys/code (me at one point) and promoted one of our customer support agents to SRE. I'm very proud of that because it was incredibly hard for me to go break into the field.