Compensation: Overall LinkedIn is paying 30k/year more than Google (about to negotiate with Google) Aim: To do full time development work (by switching teams if need be) by 2 years HR at both companies told me its easy to switch to a SWE role. Will joining as a SRE in a new college grad role make it difficult to switch to a SWE role in future as compared to joining as a SETI? Will Google match the offer if negotiated well?
Google anyday , seti-> swe transition easier
Swe=sre>seti
Probably seti at google. Heard it’s easy to switch.
SRE to SWE is rare at LinkedIn
There are at least 5 this past year.
At LI, the opportunity to do dev work is far from guaranteed for an SRE. I myself spent a year as a glorified sysadmin before changing teams. Even then, all the good dev work - even the stuff about Reliability - was first offered to the devs, by the dev manager, in their own roadmap meeting before my manager even heard of it.
Did you change to SWE team? how difficult is it to switch to SWE from SRE?
We've had an sre switch to dev in our team. He's awesome. I assume if you're awesome you can do it too. Having said that, don't diss the SRE role. Some of the SREs in our team are more valuable than some of the devs. They're super competent and know what they are doing. In our org we have a number of software projects by SREs. Mostly they're about monitoring and tooling, but they're still important to the overall service we provide. I can't claim all teams at LinkedIn are like this, but I'm pretty proud of our team. I don't have enough experience at Google, but from what I've heard, the good ones are very well respected. (Also, it seems that both at Google and LinkedIn a lot of SREs like to drink (not a negative, just an fyi))
I agree that SREs are valuable. But for me I would enjoy more development work and hence would like to eventually switch to SWE. From the info I have got, its very difficult to switch from SRE to SWE at LinkedIn if not impossible. Can you please tell me the process for switching? Will I have to give all the interviews again?
Isn’t SETI basically a SWE? What differences are there in the role?
From the info i gather, SWE work on product dev while SETI work on building the test infrastructure (but they don't write test cases)
How was the seti interview?
Same interview as SWE
Did you get a chance to talk to the teams and get an idea of what an example project seti works on? I wanted to know what team googles internal build system is, like bazel,borg or their internal version of kubernites which builds googles code. The recruiter kept saying that SETI are the ones who work on those. But I keep hearing SETI work on test framework. Which is completely different from what I am looking for.
SRE?