Site Reliability Engineer Interview Experience - Austin, Texas
Process
I had an internal referral for two positions.
The first was for an SRE role. The initial contact for the "Hi, we got your referral, can you tell me a bit about yourself?" call was quick, but then I was ghosted. After my referrer mentioned this to people internally, a different recruiter finally contacted me six weeks later. They left a voicemail with no details, and their inbox was full when I tried to call back. Then, I received a rejection letter the next day.
For the DevOps position that I was referred for, before I had even been rejected for the first position, I received an acknowledgement email and then no contact for going on three weeks.
For a company that deals with hiring and recruitment, they certainly don't know how to hire people for themselves.
Questions
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Indeed Site Reliability Engineer role in Austin, Texas.
Success Rate
Indeed's interview process for their Site Reliability Engineer roles in Austin, Texas is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Indeed's Site Reliability Engineer interview process in Austin, Texas.
Indeed Work Experiences
- 4.0Good Balance, Bit ScatteredSite Reliability Engineer • Current EmployeeAustin, Texas, United StatesNovember 25, 2020Pros: Work-life balance.Cons: A bit all over the place.
- 5.0Great place to work for engineersSite Reliability Engineer • Current EmployeeTokyo, Tokyo, JapanJune 16, 2020Pros: - Lots of exciting technical challenges. - Great pay and open PTO policy. - Friendly and supportive culture.Cons: If you are unlucky, you'll see some technical debts that are hard to deal with.
- 3.0Ineffective management, old techStaff Software Engineer • Former EmployeeAustin, Texas, United StatesApril 16, 2024Pros: The product is pretty useful, and the work/life balance is okay. Some teams are remote, which is nice.Cons: Technical management, at least in my experience, doesn't know what they're doing. I honestly don't understand the purpose of dev managers who don't know how to code. If your experience is like mine, expect your DM to make you do their job. Resource planning and meeting organization are all ad hoc and delegated. DMs are glorified performance reviewers, and it's pretty clear they're being directed to squeeze performance reviews to find excuses to fire or hold back good engineers to avoid more layoffs, like all the big tech companies. Meanwhile, the tech stack is a mess. It's honestly baffling in 2024. It's something I would have considered obsolete in 2014. There's no time for tech debt, though, because management is so bad at managing projects that everyone is just working on experimental projects that are desperately guessing at ways to improve UX. The vast majority of which fail, wasting months of work. That makes sense for Google, who basically admitted 10 years ago that they'd peaked. Every app does eventually. But you shouldn't hire for growth if you aren't growing.
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