This is normally where you see the product engineers start to freak out.

Likely this will be upvoted here though because it paints crypto in a negative light. Enjoy HN.

Also your view that dumb voters led to this is counter productive and insulting. It is what I am seeing in almost every reddit post as well. “Well people are just too dumb to know what they need”… yeah ok.

This is the world we live in. Where everyone now feels like they have to give someone extra money just because they showed up to work. Better yet is shitty waiters who have a built in 20% tip. The entire thing pisses me off.

I use to enjoy going to restaurants and would tip easily over 20% because i would get awesome service. Now you are paying that in hopes they don’t spit in your food next time you show up.

I stopped going out to eat because the entire industry is full of assholes now who think they deserve your money. I still follow a lot of people who work in the industry on social media from 5 years ago when i would frequent a lot of nice restaurants. The kind of shit they post is just completely toxic “why are you even coming out to eat if you don’t tip over 20% type crap”.

After that I was hired at a FANG company and worked on automating data centers and service deployments as well as a ton of other stuff. Now I pretty much just go setup infra teams for people I used to work with who are at various small to medium startups.

So I don’t have a great answer for you but I would say staying away from anything where all they can tell you is “k8s” “terraform” and stuff that boils down to writing yaml or some config language all day. Additionally if you can’t get a good idea of where the company is today in the interview and where they would like to go it’s going to be sys admin stuff. In all my interviews i lay out where we currently are and all the issues that causes and go over where we want to be in a year from now and what things need to be done to get there. At the end you should feel like you fit into some part of that.

It is amazing how many hiring managers can’t give you a coherent picture of that. If all they can say is we need k8s, docker, infra as code and other buzz words without a plan the team is setup to fail.

The other way is just apply for platform eng or sre jobs at FANG and friends which will almost never be sys admin stuff although it can happen sometimes if they are listed for a team that works on the corporate side of the business.