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A recruiter reached out to me about an infra engineer position in a mid sized, pre IPO company. I have zero experience designing large scale distributed systems and am from a client development background. Is there any chance of getting hired? This is for a Senior dev role.
tell them you can program on a vic20
Which company? You can tell me in PM and I can give you a specific idea. Anyway, I just talked to maybe a dozen companies and did loops with many of them, coming from a client background at MS and looking at infra roles at other companies. My experience is that very few recruiters have any conception of development outside of the web application / mobile application world. You're either a front end dev, backend dev, infra dev, or mobile dev - they don't understand anything else. Most companies will make you do a system design problem involving a large scale web service, but the domain knowledge required to pass those isn't vast, you can pick up what you need from online study resources. In the end I got a few offers for infra roles from mid-sized near-IPO unicorns, with total comp 150%+ of what I made before, so the effort was totally worthwhile. And better to leave the MS bubble sooner rather than later.
let me guess - Qualtrics? you will be fine :)
They want people with services experience for senior positions