I can use some advice on choosing the right company to intern at. A little about me, I'm a 2022 grad and these offers are for a 6-month internship in the DevOps/Infrastructure teams of the above-mentioned companies. Here's the breakdown, - Meesho: 50k INR/mo (Stipend) • New team being formed. Lots of experienced and senior people joining the team around this time. • The work being offered is decent. They're looking to move towards using containers (read K8s) which is something I've worked on extensively during my past internships. • ESOPs for all. - Grofers: 50k INR/mo (Stipend) • Specialized teams in place for a long time (Cloud Platform team, CD Platform team, Kubernetes Platform, Reliability team). Possibility of being siloed out. • If their tech blog is anything to go by, their infra team does some great work. I've no doubts about the quality of work being offered to me. • No ESOPs to L1 employees. - SenseHQ: 50k INR/mo (Stipend) • New company in the block. Hiring aggressively in India across all levels. Though the infra team has only two people as of now. • The kind of work and projects that the reporting manager mentioned weren't the best. • ESOPs for all. They're also willing to convert me earlier (in 3 months) rather than waiting for 6 months. Series D US-based startup. If you're still reading, then please read ahead about my aspirations and desired career path. I'm very motivated to work in the areas of distributed systems and cloud-native computing (think Golang, K8s, and all the other open-source deep infra tools). Starting out in DevOps may not be the best idea but this is what I've been able to crack as of now and I also think working in Infra/Platform teams gives one a good idea in case they end up developing the tooling going forward. My next goal would be to either transition into a role in the Platform team or shift to a company that works on open source tools (Redhat, vmware, etc.) If you've any insights regarding choosing the offer or about my career path, please drop a comment. I'll appreciate it. If there's anything I missed, please feel free to mention and I'll update the post. #DevOps #Grofers #Meesho #Internship
Grofers had an awesome team for Infra and devops but most of the awesome folks i knew have left now. We had people who were contributing to K8s and were part of CNCF committee's. Since moving in with Zomato, Grofers team doesn't do much. Anything that was to be done is already done. I was there when were migrating from our Ansible based Setup on AWS to Kops managed self hosted K8s to finally EKS. Join meesho. You will learn more if there is a lot of work to be done. Grofers is more or less a graveyard now. People are resting and vesting there.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Your points answer some of my main doubts about Grofers. > Anything that was to be done is already done. I too had this impression of Grofers and also about it being a dying place. From what I saw, senior leadership is also leaving the company and the valuation rocket is slow. Can I DM regarding some career advice? As much as I find this field exciting, I don't want to be siloed out in Ops work.
Sure dude
Can you share interview experience? What all questions they asked, Leetcode difficulty etc?
Sure. All these interviews were set up via employee referrals. I reached out to senior heads/VPs of these teams and shared my experience from a past internship (which is pretty much the key here). Meesho and SenseHQ had regular DevOps rounds with just one DSA question asked in each of them which was LC easy. More focus was on Linux internals, Docker internals, CI/CD, public cloud services, and related tech. Grofers had the toughest rounds among these where there was a prior coding assignment and then one proper round of discussion on K8s internals. YMMV since this was not an on-campus/off-campus pool hiring.
Thanks for answer. Good luck with your internship.
SenseHq is one the most unethical company, HR will give u false promises
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. They made some promises like ESOPs for all, early conversion, great WLB, etc. Do you mind sharing your specific experience? I reached out to employees on LinkedIn to cross-verify but 80% of them are new joiners so either they can't say much or they say that all is great at Sense.