hidden_arachnid

7 lat temudiscuss

I wrote this post! The month leading up to Thanksgiving was an unusually busy one for us. This project involved so many different people that we realized the story behind it could serve as a cross-section glimpse into what we actually do on a day-to-day basis – as well as a chance to reminisce about some of the funny things that happened along the way. Normally our blog posts are more serious and data-driven, but in this case I thought it'd be more interesting – and fun – to write something a bit more tongue-in-cheek. Hope you enjoyed!

hidden_arachnid

7 lat temudiscuss

That (or something like that) does tend to the accepted definition of DevOps! The problem is that it's a rather abstract definition, and there isn't a lot of consensus on how to apply it.

hidden_arachnid

7 lat temudiscuss

Author of this article here! I definitely want to know if there's anything anyone thinks I missed - I wound up doing a pretty deep dive into how "DevOps" is being defined and applied, but it was largely from the perspective of people hiring, and I suspect that people with different perspectives will also have different opinions.

hidden_arachnid

7 lat temudiscuss

I wrote this article! One interesting angle we explored in the interview (but which didn’t make the final edit) was Kevin’s thoughts on academia and the time he spent there:

Do you feel any regret from switching from academia to tech?

I certainly spent many years of my life studying things that only a handful of people care about. I think there's an answer to that question where, "Oh, of course, if I'm thinking about this 10 years ago, in terms of where would I want to be, financially, today, then no, I'm not going to do that." But do I regret those years I spent training for that? No, I don't.

I still love literature, I still love to read. I feel like, "Okay, I have this knowledge and appreciation of literature, and now I have this other technical job that I'm still able to learn really interesting things, and make a decent salary, and have this enriched, enlightened soul." I wouldn't necessarily advise people away from studying humanities. I would try to advise them to pick up another skill, just in case. Learn coding, or learn something, and just make sure you know what you're getting into. But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have listened to anyone who said that when I was getting into it. So you have to consider it, yourself.

hidden_arachnid

7 lat temudiscuss

Author of this article here. As long as this initial data-dive came out, there are still a bunch of things we’d like to look at. Does location (say, NYC vs Silicon Valley vs affect these preferences? Does which track (generalist, front-end, mobile) a candidate takes through our process? How does this link with how candidates actually behave when given an offer? Our data set has enough information that we can investigate these questions, but this was long enough as it is.

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