I’m working in infra teams and interested in Square. I’m just curious how solid is Squares internal infra such as cloud, deployment, fleet management, data infra/storage infra, ML infra? Here in LinkedIn we built lots of in-house tools that are suboptimal leading to horrible oncall. So how about Square?
No way. It’s Google and Facebook infrastructure catch LinkedIn with its pants down
Square and CashApp have a buy rather than build culture. Think thin wrappers on third party tools. Infra teams in general are a bit out of touch with product teams and have a poor reputation. But WLB and oncall are not bad.
Thanks then sound infra team at Square is not good option? Still should target product/app teams which are directly generating revenue?
I wouldn't say it's not a good option. It depends on what you're looking for. If you want to work on assembling the infra stack for a company using the latest off the shelf tech, it's a good fit. I believe a lot of folks on those teams are pretty happy with their day to day.
Infra teams at both Square and Cash are going through some major changes in leadership. Go to Square Fe instead of Cash CloudPlat if choosing between the two.
Not the best compared to actual big tech
Seems like they’ve been trying to modernize but it’s taking a while to filter down to teams that are implementing it.
LinkedIn is literally best in class at infra so anything is going to feel less mature..
Are you being sarcastic?
H/she is actually right