Episode 124
How To Break Into Site Reliability Engineering on A F-1 Visa - w/ Sai Joshitha
and a Kubernetes pod just quietly died. A guy in a different time zone taps his card for coffee and it works.
Who this is for
- You are trying to get hired without sounding like everybody else in the pile.
- You would rather hear Sai Joshitha's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Break Into Site Reliability Engineering on A F-1 Visa - w/ Sai Joshitha
- this episode, I promise you will know how to land a role that most engineers don't even know exists. That's not how...
- H so no lead code. Well, so then what are they actually measuring? It's not like can this person write the code? No....
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I kind of applied almost 200 plus applications every week but I didn't give up. That's what I can say. I didn't give up. I I tried every day. Every single day I tried. That's Sai Jooshita, senior site
That's Sai Jooshita, senior site reliability engineer at Visa, the same company that runs the systems behind most of your payments. By the end of this episode, I promise you will know
this episode, I promise you will know how to land a role that most engineers don't even know exists. That's not how interviews goes for SRS that most of the interviews for SRS is how
most of the interviews for SRS is how you will handle if the system goes wrong. We do have one technical rounds coding round but it's not like lead code things. H so no lead code. Well, so then what
H so no lead code. Well, so then what are they actually measuring? It's not like can this person write the code? No. How this person can handle this situation? She lays out the exact tool stack recruiters screen for
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and a Kubernetes pod just quietly died. A guy in a different time zone taps his card for coffee and it works. He'll never know how close that was. Keeping him from finding out is Sai Joshitha's job.
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