Re: [PLUG] OT: SRE @ Google

[John Von Essen <john@essenz.com>]

Tony,

When the Google guy posted this on the list a month or so a go, I  
immediately followed-up with a remark about google offering far below  
average salaries. His response was a very canned answer - and of course  
he didn't acknowledge if Google pays competitive wages.

So when you say $35k, I'm not suprized at all.

Screw google. 5 years from now Microsoft will have swallowed up some of  
their top disgruntled engineers, and voila, tables are turned. Just  
like AMD did against Intel in the late 90's.

-john




On Aug 30, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Toby DiPasquale wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:08:46PM -0400, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote:
> > ------------------------- Original Message  
> > ----------------------------
> > From:    "Jeff Polo" <jpolo@google.com>
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> > -
> >
> > The group I'm supporting is Google.com Engineering (a.k.a. Site
> > Reliability Engineering, or SRE) This multi-talented group of  
> > engineers
> > all have some mix of Linux/Unix systems administration experience,  
> > solid
> > scripting/coding skills, and a firm understanding of networking.   
> > They are
> > responsible for ensuring the quality, speed, and uptime of Google's
> > services and tools and managing the production systems and network  
> > they
> > run on.  From code-level troubleshooting of traffic anomalies to
> > maintenance of our most cutting edge services; from monitoring and  
> > alerts
> > to building new automation
> > infrastructure, our SRE engineers are in the thick of everything  
> > related
> > to keeping Google.com running at peak.
> >
> > The guy is interestred in full-time positions, so just email him with  
> > a
> > resume if you'd like to.
>
> Might want to check out the situation there; I've heard from some  
> people
> on the West Coast that they pay very poorly for this type of position
> (e.g. $35K for sysadmin around SF).
>
> -- T
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