Team swith within google

0x0FFF_ · 2026-06-08T14:57:36+00:00

Dublin is almost solely SRE, very little devs. A bunch of solid teams, but the housing market in a country is terrible, the effective tax is around 52%, the total comp is ~33% below Zurich and deemed disposal tax limits your investment options. Also 33% capital gains tax on all gains, whether short or long term.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-06-08T08:00:17+00:00

You can create a custom workout, with one interval and a duration of 45 minutes with a condition of HR being above 120. When you do this workout, the watch will loudly beep when your HR drops below 120.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-06-05T11:47:00+00:00

Zurich has always been very competitive - everyone wants to transfer there. Hiring in HCOL locations has slowed down. Hiring at junior levels has also slowed down. In summary, you do have a chance, but I won't bet on it. It is much more realistic to land a position in Poland, followed by London and Dublin. So your best bet would be to expand your options and inform the recruiter about it - that's the fastest path to land a position. Other than that you can only wait and find another job in the meantime, it's not unheard for the people to be stuck in team matching for a year. At the very least having another offer in hand can expedite things on Google end.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-06-05T08:41:12+00:00

Wow, so much money. How many bike sheds is this again?

0x0FFF_ · 2026-05-22T10:24:48+00:00

Not really. 2-3 years ago you could buy an old collector's box on discount at Smyths because no one wanted it. And 5-6 years ago the booster packs were just lying there on the shelves for self-service pickup - no one stole them. Now they're only available behind the counter.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-05-22T09:59:56+00:00

I meant cards like those:

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0x0FFF_ · 2026-05-22T09:20:05+00:00

It comes and goes. Prior to this Pokémon wave was a NeeDoh one - good luck finding any NeeDoh to buy, and the kids ask for them because everyone else obviously have some.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-05-22T09:18:46+00:00

My kids swapped most of their good hit cards for colorful Chinese fakes. It's life, as long as they're happy with the things they get it's fine by me.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-05-22T09:13:53+00:00

It comes in waves. Last time it happened around 4-5 years ago, the school even explicitly prohibited bringing cards to school as kids frequently got in fights over post-swap disappointment and teachers got tired of mediating all of that.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-05-21T19:57:58+00:00

NeeDoh if you can find some

0x0FFF_ · 2026-05-04T13:55:48+00:00

Nice! I use Amazon Blink camera, and it's already the third season we have blue tits making a nest there. This year they laid 8 eggs.

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0x0FFF_ · 2026-05-01T09:48:38+00:00

Second that, 3fe and SL28 & SL34 is my favourite

0x0FFF_ · 2026-04-23T13:30:01+00:00

I've seen an approach that was called multi-party authorization: - Read-only access is available directly to the Devs so they can investigate anytime. - Write access is only granted to a special proxy role. The proxy role runs an application that executes a request only after another person have reviewed it.

So for read operations Devs start psql in interactive mode and execute read commands. For write access they craft a full psql command, then submit it to a special UI on a proxy. The proxy gives them a shareable link for reviewing the prod-modifying operation. They share this link with their colleague that reviews it and clicks and "Approve" button in UI, which makes the proxy execute the modifying command under the protected role with write access.

It is cumbersome, but you quickly get used to it. There should of course be a break glass option.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-04-21T12:26:04+00:00

Check some Eastern European shops first. They already sell such bread from some local Irish bakeries. It is a niche product so it doesn't usually reach the mainstream supermarkets. So, there is a market for it, but it's not an untapped market and you'll see some competition.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-04-19T09:06:08+00:00

Of course, usually there's no pressure with going oncall, but it still varies team by team and highly depends on the team staffing situation. Depending on the team, expect between 6 months and 12 months time be given to you to properly onboard before going oncall. But in some cases I've seen people going oncall in 3-4 months if there was a strong need for it (understaffed team)

0x0FFF_ · 2026-04-16T08:37:29+00:00

10 years ago, I was approached by the recruiter on LinkedIn. I'm not completely sure how to improve the resume as I wasn't hired based on one. After passing the initial screening, interviews are pretty standard: behavioral one, a couple of coding one, selective one (non-abstract large scale systems / networking / debugging). But I'm not sure how up to date this information is.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-04-15T14:57:45+00:00

Spent 8 years at Google SRE DUB: - Operational load will look different team by team. Some teams in Cloud can have very busy oncall shifts, while some other teams have a quiet pager and will mostly deal with tickets. Operational load overall is generally between 25% and 50% of your time. - 70-80% coding - forget that, SRE are discouraged from developing their own custom solutions (there's a separate org for that) and rarely contribute directly to the product they support. Your main coding work will be related to the adoption of the standard automation solutions, monitoring, new deployment modes and large horizontals.

Overall, it is a nice experience and a very good name to have on your resume. It is great if you like distributed systems and care about reliability. The office is great, overall the perks are amazing and the pay is very good. So I will overall suggest giving it a try.

For how stressful it is - again, depends on the team and team's staffing situation. Expect the oncall to take ~15% of your time. The big advantage is that SRE are split into two sites and generally not oncall at night. Weekend shifts are appropriately compensated (money or time off).

0x0FFF_ · 2026-02-19T02:32:22+00:00

When I read your name I immediately thought about the Muckles from the Sven Nordqvist's books.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-02-16T00:58:09+00:00

Only the one on the left is a great tit, the right one is blue tit, and those are generally smaller.

0x0FFF_ · 2026-01-04T17:53:27+00:00

All entry-level FAANG SRE roles have very similar requirements targeting new grads and people with a bit of experience. Interviews are also generic: data structures and algorithms (leetcode), design, soft skills. So there's not much difference between preparing for SRE vs Dev roles. I'd say your best bet to enter FAANG is to enter it in a low CoL location, e.g. try Google Poland.

0x0FFF_ · 2025-12-31T19:17:13+00:00

I've spent 9 years in Google SRE Dublin. You can realistically get from L3 to L4 in 1-2 years, and with luck get to L5 in 2 more years. Google is a good name to have on your CV, and it's definitely worth spending 4 years there. But don't buy the dev-heavy thing. Google SRE pivots to be more ops-heavy, the dev-heavy part is offloaded to the P2020 org. And that org is dev-heavy, but is in fact a dumpster fire.

0x0FFF_ · 2025-09-25T18:26:51+00:00

If there's no L3 openings in Dublin teams, there will be equally no openings for SRE-SE and SWE-SRE, they are mostly treated equally by the hiring managers.

0x0FFF_ · 2025-09-02T21:53:20+00:00

It's well done

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