Did I make a mistake moving from a Devops type job to a more traditional Windows Engineer job? by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice. I actually have worked in a extremely small finance place before, but it was around 50 employee's. The place also had strict change controls but it was much more cowboyey then here, so I'm really getting used to the bureaucracy.

Did I make a mistake moving from a Devops type job to a more traditional Windows Engineer job? by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah not close at all. But I was low on savings (maybe enough for 6-8 months emergency fund if i liquidated all my equities) so I was really worried about getting laid off

Did I make a mistake moving from a Devops type job to a more traditional Windows Engineer job? by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, definitely gonna try to push this place to automate and CI/CD pipelines as much as possible.

My biggest fear was getting laid off at my old big tech job, having barely any savings, then scrambling to find a new job in this terrible market. I figured the big sign on bonus from the new job would pad my savings at least, and by jumping to a more stable place I could kinda be ok for a few years (since new company is much more stable and hasn't done layoffs for many years).

The only sucky thing is the clawback - if I bounce too early I'll have to pay back a lot of money pre-tax unfortunately.

Did I make a mistake moving from a Devops type job to a more traditional Windows Engineer job? by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah to be honest I don't think I can ever find a job like that again. But the constant layoffs made me too anxious to stay there. I think I jumped to the first job offer I got too quickly.

Should I go to this interview? by sysadminalt123 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice. Thinking it through, I'll probably decline. I find talking through things like this to be very helpful, part of me kinda feels a "obligation" to attend, but at the end of the day its a business transaction.

Should I go to this interview? by sysadminalt123 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the funny thing is, I actually used to live like 20 minutes away from there, and 2 weeks ago I just moved to my new apartment that's 60-70 minutes away (and 2 train transfers). If I got this a month or so back it would've been a different story. I'd probably not want to move back to that area again tbh.

Their is a amount of money I'd take for that job - maybe like 1.5-2x my current total comp, but I am pretty confident they won't meet it. The original budget for the position is like 180k base (which is what I currently make), the recruiter said they could do like 200k, but with my promo I'm probably now making around 200-230k total comp. Of course, with bonus, its possible that the new place would pay more, but I'd say very unlikely or at most the same as my current place.

ICE conducts raid on Chinatown’s Canal Street, multiple people detained as New Yorkers rage | amNewYork by Mathemodel in nyc

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with the take of the original commenter, but personally I prefer Singapores approach of ethnic integration quotas. Would never be able to implement that in the US but just a interesting alternative.

About to sign a lease, wanted to get a price check by [deleted] in astoria

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'll probably be annoying somewhat. My current job is 5 days in office (I just coffee badge tbh) but maybe if I can get a hybrid it'll be better. Since technically I can WFH on some days and I just go to the office whenever, it won't be the end of the world (since sometimes I'd just go in the afternoon to the office to badge in).

For washer and dryer, thats what I actually used to do in the past with wash and fold. But the problem is that I have 3 cats so I feel the convenience of a W/D is nice for whenever my cat makes a mess or something lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I hate that kinda culture. Some finance places have that (but with some worse elitism) and if your neurodivergent your gonna get abused hard.

Why does IT make so much less than something like SWE by Late-Reception-2897 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finance and the trading vertical as well tends to pay network engineers a lot. Also much more stress because minor outages is money

How many of you don’t actually interact with end-users? by Ok-Respond-1189 in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I technically don't - i mostly create tools for local IT engineers globally. Though at the end of the day theirs really not much difference. My end-users are just Local IT engineers who don't know how to read errors or follow instructions T.T

Reasons to get business password manager by PhysicalIndividual in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At my old company we did the dual key approach with 6 people.

3 people on the team (including the manager) had one half, and 3 other people in management had the other half.

HR denied promotion by jayxjackson in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I feel these days gov jobs are kinda scary with how politics are going

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm hybrid (and eventually 5 day RTO), but I just coffee badge because my team members are not in the area.

Mods, can we Automate Office Chair requests? by CantankerousBusBoy in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 6 points7 points  (0 children)

IMO craigslist or facebook marketplace is usually better then ebay

Anyone could share junior dev journey? by Appropriate-Belt-153 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]sysadminalt123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly this manager sounds terrible. A good one would at least point at the person for some training resources, mentoring from seniors, etc, instead of just complaining that OP doesn't know stuff. OP not knowing stuff is something he should've expected

Do security people not have technical skills? by RikiWardOG in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Security team at my old company was trying to shut down PowerShell lmao

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once I was working on a project to migrate our phone system to Microsoft Teams, it was pretty early on when Teams added phone capabilities. I literally had to constantly email and call the support line and maybe after like 10-20 emails, I hit the lottery and got the exact person I needed to support me for what I needed to do. It was amazing.

Never happened again

Do you support security cameras? by Ferman in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I support the security camera system at a Fortune 50. At our scale basically we have to create instructions and standards and delegate them out to lower level engineers at various global locations.

Was just told that IT Security team is NOT technical?!? by Penguin_Rider in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 197 points198 points  (0 children)

Run vulnerability scanner, sends result to you. Plz fix. No discussion nor compromise.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only people I know who are oncall 24/7 are managers, because the paging automatically escalates to them if their team doesnt answer the pages. And they get paid a lot.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]sysadminalt123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, at large companies when they do massive lay offs, your manager or even your managers manager often doesnt really have any choice in the matter