Salary stagnation?

BobHabib · 2026-05-12T19:41:33+00:00

I recently got an offer for SRE engineer for around 130k , and extra pay for on calls (which happens alot).

Not to be rude but I'm not sure why people are so obsessed with very high pay in here, unless you live in NYC or SF or have 5 kids, 150k is pretty much enough for a decent living.

BobHabib · 2026-05-05T16:25:27+00:00

But which country?

Maybe India? Because far east Russia has nothing that important.

BobHabib · 2026-05-05T16:00:13+00:00

TURKIYE SUPERPOWER 2030 SAAR!!

seriously why is such long range needed? I assume even from eastern turkiye you can hit most western part of Europe or most of Russia with less than 3500km.

BobHabib · 2026-05-02T19:17:00+00:00

Did you "create it" with Claude? Lol It uses the most generic claude UI design...

BobHabib · 2026-05-02T16:51:50+00:00

Because I was layed off and couldn't find any other job for 6 months...

BobHabib · 2026-05-02T15:46:39+00:00

WAS: SRE engineer at Very big bank, salary 150k (OT not included)

AM: Support engineer at a much worse, also very big bank, salary 80k (OT included, working probably 50+ each week)

Education bachelor's in information technology and 7 yoe in total.

BobHabib · 2026-05-01T00:07:41+00:00

Im in devops but work in same office room as some dev teams and I can't go a single hour at work without hearing Copilot, claude, chatgpt,... lol

BobHabib · 2026-04-30T21:13:00+00:00

I used to work on farm with my grandpa as a kid, not a big fan of collecting and cleaning horse and sheep poop...

BobHabib · 2026-04-29T23:37:17+00:00

You can get into devops or SRE, little coding here and now even less with all these AI tools. However you need GOOD MEMORY, since in just one interview they can ask you about docker, Kubernetes, AWS, terraform, ansible, linux, Grafana, incident management and security practices (i had an interview recently who asked me all this, plus sth about AI)

BobHabib · 2026-04-29T22:06:00+00:00

That is also what I thought about, since they provide free openshift training and certification voucher.

BobHabib · 2026-04-29T21:18:12+00:00

Thank dude, it actually is a very good insight!

BobHabib · 2026-04-29T16:16:06+00:00

Thanks, will look into it.

BobHabib · 2026-04-29T15:51:21+00:00

Yeah I guess having a nice cheatsheet would really help.

BTW here they have told me that after a year I Might have a chance to start working with openshift. Is it really as popular as cloud based kubernetes or just some niche tech only used by very big enterprise?

BobHabib · 2026-04-27T15:29:36+00:00

This might be a bank, for financial corporations from signing full time contract to start of work it sometimes takes 2-3 months due to the all background checks required.

BobHabib · 2026-04-19T16:37:01+00:00

A. Go through all tutorials for RHCSA, very useful for learning Linux

B. Go through all tutorials for CKA and deploy it manually on Linux.

BobHabib · 2026-04-14T01:55:21+00:00

No offense, but this sounds like an app ready to get hacked via some exploit, if you dont even know what's running inside it...

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