I got hired at the peak of the market just before covid blew up. I am switching from aws to fb at e5 with 6 yoe. At my level of experience I hadn't expected much support ramping up in a new team. I expected the ramp up to be 90%+ self driven with a team lead pointing me towards important resources and occasionally correcting my priorities/milestones.
However, a few things are making me worried about the situation as its evolving. They have put me on paid leave till my hardware arrives and I have already officially left AWS.
I need some guidance from fb's tenured employees/mgrs as to how to approach the bootcamp and team-selection process and how I can minimize risk.
My perceived pros/cons are :-
Cons :-
* Unfortunately i was hired at the top of the band for e5 since i had competing offers from google & uber.
* Low years of experience compared to most external E5 hires.
Pros :-
* Young, no children etc. - can dedicate myself 100% to work until things settle down.
* Knowledge of performance & utilization challenges in large scale web services. I worked in a massive AWS service (500B+ req/day) in the core data plane so have a deep understanding for finding ways to improve utilization and performance.
- What is the mood w.r.t. hiring in the infra (systems generalist) orgs at fb? Has the increased traffic increased the priority of finding ways to cut hardware costs/perf improvements?
- How will I be calibrated against other E5s? How much will my pay affect what "meets expectations" would be for me? Should I ask for a pay reduction due to covid?
- Any particular infra team where I can show dollar impact quickly due to its central nature and larger traffic etc.?
- Should I shorten bootcamp and try to join the team working on building the exact same type of infra as i was working on in AWS?
- How to stand out in bootcamp?
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