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Vargatron posted:Also, ask me about wearing way too many hats as a SysAdmin with no formal training!! Sounds perfectly normal to me. I cut my teeth as the only IT person on my org. Printers, NetWare, user management and organization, routing [tcp/ip and ipx/spx], dhcp, dns, backups, WinFrame and Metaframe? These are all the things I taught myself how to do without the benefit of google. I’m not sure how IT or CS degrees work these days but I don’t think much has changed for the “gently caress if I know but give me a bit to figure it out and I’ll get back to you” IT veteran. You get up and you learn it or you quickly go the way of the dodo.
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there was a big list of questions to ask at an interview floating around, anyone have it handy? I have my own list but want to check it for things that I've missed
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Sep 21, 2020 20:21
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whats training
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Sep 21, 2020 20:34
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The Fool posted:there was a big list of questions to ask at an interview floating around, anyone have it handy? As a candidate asking the interviewer or a bank of interview questions to ask the candidate?
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Sep 21, 2020 20:38
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The Fool posted:there was a big list of questions to ask at an interview floating around, anyone have it handy? Ask how often there are on-call pages. And what the causes are. What percentage are directly actionable. Those which are not, why are non-actionable items being paged. Ask for an example of a recent prod fire and what the dynamic is for responding to those. What was your team's responsibility in addressing the fire. Ask the interviewer if they got a bonus last year. What was the criteria for that. What's the dynamic like between your team and the other teams that you will support. Is it collegial? What sort of requests do they make of your team. Methanar fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Sep 21, 2020 |
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Sep 21, 2020 20:38
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Agrikk posted:As a candidate asking the interviewer or a bank of interview questions to ask the candidate? As a candidate Interviewing for a azure/terraform/ansible/blah/blah position tomorrow
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Sep 21, 2020 20:50
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The Fool posted:there was a big list of questions to ask at an interview floating around, anyone have it handy? This is what I got and I think its the list you're talking about. quote:How do compensate for incidents outside of normal working hours?
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Sep 21, 2020 20:51
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Methanar posted:Ask how often there are on-call pages. And what the causes are. What percentage are directly actionable. Those which are not, why are non-actionable items being paged. I was planning on asking about on-call already, but those are good followup questions I hadn't thought of. Haven't had to be on-call in 5-ish years and don't know that I'd be ready to go back to that if it's more than once-in-a-blue-moon other questions are good, thank you
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Sep 21, 2020 20:52
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I'm the dude that brings a leather bound notepad to an interview and takes notes. Also with extra copies of my resume.
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Sep 21, 2020 20:56
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George H.W. oval office posted:This is what I got and I think its the list you're talking about. That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks
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Sep 21, 2020 20:56
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The Fool posted:there was a big list of questions to ask at an interview floating around, anyone have it handy? "Can I see your server room?"
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Sep 21, 2020 20:58
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Bob Morales posted:"Can I see your server room?" It's a 100% remote cloud/automation engineer role. I should never have to think about on-prem servers again if I take this job.
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Sep 21, 2020 20:59
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My dream server room is nothing more than a battery backup meant to last long enough for a generator to spin up, networking equipment, and maaaaybe a single on-prem file server as a software repository.
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Sep 21, 2020 21:30
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klosterdev posted:My dream server room is nothing more than a battery backup meant to last long enough for a generator to spin up, networking equipment, and maaaaybe a single on-prem file server as a software repository. I would probably put a domain controller in there still. Not everyone can do 100% AzureAD yet.
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Sep 21, 2020 21:33
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The Fool posted:It's a 100% remote cloud/automation engineer role. I should never have to think about on-prem servers again if I take this job. I love being in this position. I just manage the AWS fleet that runs the app. IT has a couple physical servers for god knows what reasons but that's their problem, not the SRE team's.
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Sep 21, 2020 23:44
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George H.W. oval office posted:This is what I got and I think its the list you're talking about. "How often do you take a full week of vacation ? Ever get to take two ?"
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Sep 21, 2020 23:53
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mllaneza posted:"How often do you take a full week of vacation ? Ever get to take two ?" Oh yeah, this is on my list already, specifically because they list unlimited vacation in the job description
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Sep 22, 2020 00:21
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Customer: why are my securities updating slowly? Me (to the support rep): that's what happens when you ask for 100+ symbols on a 40kbps connection.
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Sep 22, 2020 00:48
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Just enabled auto scaling down in production. About 10 months later than I initially thought I would.
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Sep 22, 2020 01:01
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So far taken down 17 m5.8xl with around 75~ more to go as I continue to roll this out and consolidate workloads. feels good man hell yeah checkout this increase in hardware utilization. 
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Sep 22, 2020 01:15
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Vargatron posted:I'm the dude that brings a leather bound notepad to an interview and takes notes. Also with extra copies of my resume. Is this not SOP? Always do this, and have pre-written questions / company research notes Bob Morales posted:"Can I see your server room?" I uh, forgot to ask this interviewing for my current role. Got on the job and found a 100% physical environment featuring dell blades and a few 2950's for good measure. It is great having a clear path forward!
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Sep 22, 2020 02:22
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12 rats tied together posted:There's an "in theory" and an "in practice" answer to this question, but the term is so diluted in 2020 as to be almost meaningless. In theory, it is a set of principles based around removing organizational boundaries between software development groups and infrastructure operations groups. If you do this well you can eliminate the incredible amount of manual toil involved with writing software, which will reduce the time it takes for a product feature to go from conception to market, which is a competitive advantage and is one that investors really like to hear about. Blinkz0rz posted:DevOps is a cultural shift characterized by increased investment in a shared responsibility model between development and operations where the process is no longer "dev throws it over the wall to ops" but instead is a collaborative effort where ops provides the tools and expertise to allow dev to deploy, run, manage, and monitor their code in production. As far as technical pieces, it emphasizes CI/CD, operational tooling (such as immutable builds, infrastructure as code, infra automation, etc.), and monitoring and alerting among others. So... All of this makes sense to me and sounds great however if DevOps is just a "process or system" then how come it didn't become a thing until the late 2000s? Why was "Waterfall" the only model for Software Development in the 1990s?
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Gabriel S. posted:So... Because for a long time IT was a function of the business and development was a function of a product org. Having the teams that provisioned infra and deployed to it in a completely separate org from the teams that wrote the code leads to the "not my problem" attitude that DevOps as a culture change is nominally trying to solve.
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Sep 22, 2020 04:17
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Also the underlying tech got abstracted enough away so that devs could in theory run their own infrastructure. I'm not saying it's all rainbows and sunshine now, but back in 2000 you were asking for trouble if your devs had root in prod and did things like managed their own backups or redundancies.
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Sep 22, 2020 05:58
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CloFan posted:I uh, forgot to ask this interviewing for my current role. Got on the job and found a 100% physical environment featuring dell blades and a few 2950's for good measure. It is great having a clear path forward! At my last outside interview before transferring to the lab team, I asked to see the server room. The place was run by one, self-taught person. They had a background as a sound engineer, the kind of person who can rewire a 64-channel mixing booth in their sleep. I have never seen a more immaculate patch panel in my life and I never will again. Zip tied of course. I'm better off where I am now, but I would have very much enjoyed working with them.
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I really wish Change Management was something enforced more in this industry. It seems like you either work for a team or company that does it well or does it horribly.
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Sep 22, 2020 15:19
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I just attended a meeting where a group of 20 or so employees wants to explose the entire main email tenant to salesforce in order to have some dumb salesforce integration. Salesforce basically wants global admin access to your email tenant and without any way to mitigate disaster. They basically just promise not to do anything bad. I wish I was kidding. That is exactly what their Product SME told us during the call. I have told them its a hard no, but offered up that they can buy their own email tenant and deal with everything involved with that if they want to pursue.
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Sep 22, 2020 16:32
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Ohana!
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mllaneza posted:At my last outside interview before transferring to the lab team, I asked to see the server room. The place was run by one, self-taught person. They had a background as a sound engineer, the kind of person who can rewire a 64-channel mixing booth in their sleep. I have never seen a more immaculate patch panel in my life and I never will again. Zip tied of course. I normally hate seeing zip ties. But I will say there are some instances where they are warranted; usually where it's a "Don't ever gently caress with this" situation. This guy sounds like my kinda of coworker though.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I normally hate seeing zip ties. But I will say there are some instances where they are warranted; usually where it's a "Don't ever gently caress with this" situation. I actually misspoke somehow, velcro like god and all the saints intended.
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mllaneza posted:I actually misspoke somehow, velcro like god and all the saints intended. Oh thank gently caress. Yeah I would very much enjoy working with this guy and bullshitting about sound engineering all day.
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Sep 22, 2020 17:13
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The Fool posted:there was a big list of questions to ask at an interview floating around, anyone have it handy? Just finished the interview. It went well. Some light-weight technical questions, I told some stories about projects I've worked on, did a rundown of my take-home, and we're scheduling a second/final interview. For what it's worth these questions got a "Wow, that's a good question" response from the interviewer: quote:What does onboarding look like? What does success in 1 month look like? What does success in 6 months look like? quote:Is there anything we've talked about that you want me to expand on? Is there anything I haven't asked that you think I should be asking?
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Bonzo posted:I really wish Change Management was something enforced more in this industry. It seems like you either work for a team or company that does it well or does it horribly. Our bosses made a big deal about this recently and we started using a system for it, all changes had to be discussed by managers and the senior person for whatever team it was for. For everything, new policy on firewalls, whatever. I saw some random, and extremely poorly built, firewall policy yesterday. It gives full internet access to a server - after them making a big deal about no servers having internet access. Look at config logs and found it was the boss, who doesn't really have any part of the day to day, and hasn't used these firewalls before, made a bunch of dumb configuration changes. No mention to anyone else, nothing on change management. Good poo poo, great management.
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uhhhhahhhhohahhh posted:Our bosses made a big deal about this recently and we started using a system for it, all changes had to be discussed by managers and the senior person for whatever team it was for. For everything, new policy on firewalls, whatever. allow ip any any has worked for us before and will continue to work in the future! I've run across that poo poo shoved into places so many times before at so many jobs. It's the easiest way to shoehorn something into a working state and so many people will just leave it that way after because "well it works now" Making it work properly is more complicated and well 
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Sep 22, 2020 20:08
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New things coming to Azure Windows Virtual Desktop. Honestly, I have been putting off doing much work on our environment because clearly lots of improvements are coming down the pipe. Not everything I wanted to see, but Intune coming "soon" for multi-session hosts is nice. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-virtual-desktop/announcing-new-management-security-and-monitoring-capabilities/m-p/1699543
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Sep 22, 2020 20:53
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Internet Explorer posted:New things coming to Azure Windows Virtual Desktop. Honestly, I have been putting off doing much work on our environment because clearly lots of improvements are coming down the pipe. Not everything I wanted to see, but Intune coming "soon" for multi-session hosts is nice. One of our divisions deployed WVD to handle the extra wfh load this year and it's worked well for them. But now they're freaking out because they're migrating to govcloud and WVD is still in preview there.
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Sep 22, 2020 20:55
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Hell ya it appears the interview gauntlet is over. Took months of searching but got a fancy “Sr.” In front of my title and a big pay bump from my last job. Starting real soon and I have a good impression of this company. Let’s hope that holds up.
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I'm also watching Ignite. It's cool but extremely marketing heavy. Anyone have a too long, didn't watch?
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Sep 23, 2020 00:01
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Bonzo posted:I really wish Change Management was something enforced more in this industry. It seems like you either work for a team or company that does it well or does it horribly. You will never not convince me that change management is a tremendous waste of time and resources. Same with CMDB.
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freeasinbeer posted:You will never not convince me that change management is a tremendous waste of time and resources. We’ve established in the past that you have bad IT opinions, so I’m not worried.
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