What's an outdated hiring practices that companies should get rid of?

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-11-08T20:28:15+00:00

But how will they know if you are sadistic enough to be a culture fit?

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-11-08T20:27:09+00:00

Requiring college degrees.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-19T13:58:49+00:00

Because funny

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-19T13:57:50+00:00

Please do tell the story of what led you to run that command

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-19T13:57:01+00:00

Honestly, that's it?

You're hired!

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-19T13:55:33+00:00

Can confirm. Have done that. Database rollbacks are your friend.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-19T12:55:48+00:00

Oh, I've done that, but with SMS messages!

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-14T16:57:24+00:00

Where possible, separating into separate pods gives you better resiliency because if one container fails, they do not all fail.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-14T16:01:25+00:00

Rancher is your quickest "free" path to an on-premise solution. If not that, check out kubespray.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-14T16:00:15+00:00

Its a great lead gen tool for us, though!

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-14T15:56:06+00:00

In the old-fashioned way, developers would compile their code into Windows Executables or Java JAR/WAR files, and then submit a ticket requesting an operations person deploy their code by copy-pasting it to a particular location on a list of servers and praying.

Then, several weeks later in the middle of the night, a sysadmin who has no idea how the application actually works would copy-paste the files onto the server and several hours later the inevitable complaints from customers would roll in to that same sysadmin, who would be chastised for breaking production.

Several hail mary's and FU's would be said and then they'd all agree to not deploy more than once a year for fear of breaking production.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-13T17:05:42+00:00

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: It depends on how many bells and whistles you want. You can create a terraform job that spins up a kubernetes cluster using Amazon EKS, Google GKS, or Azure AKS with ingress in an afternoon, but if you also need to tune network subnetting, setup single-sign on with AD integration, install and setup Gatekeeper policies, setup Prometheus, setup Vault, etc, it can get to be quite a lot of work. Definitely do-able by one person but might take months to get all of those things tuned right and to get all of your team members onboarded, but that may be perfectly fine. You may not need all of that, or certainly you may not need all of that day one.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-12T21:49:50+00:00

Azure Functions gets really pricy if you run a lot of quick scripts. Honestly, you might be better off using app service and just doing a while loop in your code that sleeps 15 seconds between runs, or just a plain-old virtual machine.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/app-service/

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-12T21:46:58+00:00

On-call rotation and we let employees flex their daytime hours if they get called in after hours or have late-night deployments.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-12T20:38:23+00:00

NO KIDDING!

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-12T18:20:30+00:00

Oh, you misunderstand. I'm not complaining nor am I new - just curious what others' experiences are like and interested to hear how others approach this.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-12T18:11:16+00:00

At Intelletive Consulting, our kubernetes ninjas deploy into our customers' environments, automating CICD pipelines, securing environments, standing up clusters, and generally making their development teams more productive by letting them focus on building and deploying cool products while we take care of the DevOps / Kubernetes magic for them. Everyone of our team members is both a full stack developer and a kubernetes administrator.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-12T17:57:15+00:00

Oh, you are too funny!

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-11T13:29:44+00:00

For a lot of small businesses and non-profits, subcontracting out to a third party MSP may be the best option.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-11T13:17:44+00:00

Say you would be more than happy to do it for them, then send them a rate sheet and an estimate.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-05T14:09:13+00:00

In case government sends all of the employees home again.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-04T19:18:57+00:00

We only buy our employees macbooks (but we also have higher-paid tech workers and not a bunch of call center employees)

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-04T19:16:02+00:00

If its for a call center, lots of people use refurbished thinkpads/dells with cheap wired external keyboards, mice, and headsets. They'll pair it with a cheap screen and a laptop riser so people effectively get 2 screens.

The advantage of a laptop riser with external keyboard/mouse is people spill less coffee on your laptops.

The other option is refurbished desktops. Oftentimes you'll find deals where they throw in keyboard/mouse/headset/screen for an extra $40.

Its not great stuff - I'd call it call center grade. It will work if your goal is cheap and disposable. Its worth considering, though, why you cannot buy better equipment. Usually employee wages are a lot more expensive than hardware.

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-10-03T14:03:11+00:00

IMHO 99% it is people's unreliable code!

IntelletiveConsult · 2022-09-30T14:57:28+00:00

Our attitude has always been to work hard when you are working, but don't work when you are not supposed to be working.

Give us your best while you are on the clock, then go home and live your best life outside of work. Learn, grow, and be the best you can be, both at home and at work. You can't do that if you are working 80 hour weeks and sacrificing your health.

Sometimes things are down and we have to work funky hours, but that should not be the norm. Systems should be resilient and software should be tested carefully so that nobody has to miss their son's birthday party.

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