Do you think this title change impacts negatively on how recruiters judge you on Linkedin? (“man this guy went from being a sr to a devops engineer, move on”) if there is an impact what can i ask for before signing? p.s. yeah i also dont like the term devops engineer, sre makes more sense
1) DevOps is not a role. It's a concept, or a set of ideas. What you mean to say is "Site Reliability Engineer". 2) SWE v. SRE is somewhat lateral, with SRE taking a minor lead due to variety in job function. Usually SREs are paid slightly more than their SWE counterparts. 3) Moving from a Senior role to a non-senior role might seen as a negative by someone, but it's all about context. If you're taking the title loss _because you want to_, eg. to move into a new role for new challenges or to move to a desired company; then that's a _good or neutral reason_.
Thanks - very helpful.
I don’t think to negatively impacts you, but recruiters will change what roles they will recruit you for. i.e. you’ll get recruited for SRE roles rather than SWE roles. if that’s fine with you, then i think you’re fine
Not really. If your skills match with what they need they still recruit you as SWE. This is from my personal experience, still getting tons of emails from recruiters for SWE positions.
@Indeed thanks for sharing this, was concerned about that.
I believe SRE is paid less than SWE.
Not at Google, as they pay 1/3rd time for after hours oncall which amounts to 11% - 13% more on top of base salary. They also pay 100% of cable modem and phone bills, another $2.5k/yr. Base salary and stock are the same. Not only that, but some devs are oncall but don't get paid for it, at all ...
Good to know!
If you think they’re the same, and call it SRE on LinkedIn. (If you’re concerned about honest disclosure , you can always put DevOps and a brief explanation in parentheses at the end of the entry.)