I have 2 offers, mostly identical in terms of compensation. Senior member of technical staff build & release engineer, vmware Staff site reliability Engineer, Citrix , cloud operations In VMware I will be working on their "tanzu" kubernetes distribution. Apparently I will be working on building this distribution by taking k8s upstream and adding patches etc .. Bangalore office. VMware has announced permanent remote (even after covid), and that's kinda important to me , Bangalore commute sucks the soul out of a person. can someone please chime in on the differences and help me make a more objective decision? > Citrix title is "staff" . How much of a weightage does this carry? Up until now I have only been the most generic "senior software Engineer" everywhere I have worked (and I understand senior MTS is basically senior software engineer anywhere else) > How bad is work life balance as a sre in Citrix? I understand all SRE roles come with on call, but does anyone know if it is more ad hoc (shit there is a fire to put out all hands on deck or more structured) ? > From a future career growth perspective, is "SRE" better than "build and release" ? From another perspective, what is the weightage you would give for "SRE vs B&R" as opoosed to "Citrix vs VMware " in terms of future career potential? > Any other generic thoughts / criteria metrics I might have forgotten? Note, I *really* don't care about office perks. A gym and a fully stocked cafeteria with a play area means nothing to me. I have been working from home before covid made it cool and my home setup is far more ergonomic than any office set up can give me. I'm only really interested in things from a work culture and a work life balance point of view. Thank you ! Note: I have mostly had a SRE/"devops" /platform/systems/infrastructure (onprem and cloud) kind of a career path. I do not intend to switch to pure SWE coding roles.
Vmware for sure
Thank you. Out of curiosity, what is your justification? Better brand name?
The overall quality of work at Tanzu Will be great down the line. Citrix hikes are shit and most teams have terrible managers
@op Did you join vmware..?
TC or BC
What's BC? Anyway, the compensation is identical in both companies
Lol, sorry mate, i had to say it, BC is an Indian abuse 🤣