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It’s likely that you wouldn’t respond but I would be very grateful if you did, because your advice might just be the solution to my problem. Background: Currently working as a Site reliability engineer, no cs/eng degree but 1.6 years of work exp (thanks to the market of 2022) and professional certs like RHCE. TC = 🥜 I manage my orgs hybrid cloud (Aws+Vmware), deploy machines, applications, firewalls and zero trust security. Been getting into advanced monitoring like Nagios and the DevOps toolset to improve my career prospects. Problem: I’ll be moving to the UK next year for my CS conversion masters and I want to prepare myself for the job market as its super tough for internationals, I plan on taking advanced CS courses and build meaningful projects for the next 2 years to strengthen my CV. Motivation: I want to work my ass off for two years as I want to work and live in the UK for a few years, I don’t want to immigrate but work for 3-4 years after my masters gain some exp and come back home. Request: Looking for advice from all devs and SRE’s. I know there’s a lot of great ones here working at my target companies. I’ve tagged a few of them. After masters I want to preferably work as an SRE / Linux Engineer in large scale distributed systems or low latency trading systems roles. #tech #jobs #google #twosigma #netflix #nvidia #imc #optiver
To be honest, education is not highly valued in tech. Work experience in relevant projects are valued highly. So strictly speaking you don’t need masters and Phd degrees. The most successful entrepreneurs in tech are school dropouts. So imagine how they would value CS degree. I do have CS masters degree from a top US school. What it really helped me is to get an interview with a top tech employer and get me the first dev job. From there on it wasn’t useful much. So if that is your main goal then go for it. If not look for jobs that interest you straight away and try to do projects that will help you get there
Yes it’s that first job thing, truth be told I am getting recruiter calls and invitations to apply but the companies are not half decent. I suppose it’s market + no CS degree. I actually didn’t get a bachelors in CS because 4-5 years ago I used tot think it’s so much easier to get into CS, you just need skill, but now the roles are reversed, they don’t even look at profiles without CS degrees. Which is why the masters is in CS. To help me tick the education box. Yes, I do plan to do relevant projects to improve my chances cuz I need all the help I can get as an international student.
Let me give you my two cents about UK. If you want to be at a top finance firm straight after graduation - then you need to graduate from a top cs school - else you won’t make the cut in a short span of time. Most trading firms hire from Oxford/Cambridge/Imperial Masters. But getting into pure tech companies - well that should be fairly easy when you have some experience prior to graduation. School name doesn’t matter at all here. Even prior company names won’t matter too. Top techs are very limited so again competitive - but much more easier than trading firms. Coming to other firms or startups - with PSW you will have the option to work with any employer. So what would I say - if you ain’t at top school, leetcode the max you can to get into Google meta Snapchat Bloomberg Amazon.
Instead of sre, focus on sde roles. They're more and merrier. Usually a company will have 5 to 10 times of sdes than sres. SRE roles are not as complex as SDE. Just Leetcode and you'll find a good sde job. Get an internship if you can.
+1 to leetcode and SDE
I will def take your advice and prepare for SDE as backup.