July 1, 2009 at 22:33Work searches
Working in the old place, he began to look for a new job in Moscow ...
Unfortunately, (or vice versa, fortunately), the search period fell at the very height of the crisis: the end of winter - the beginning of spring. Quite a lot had to be like an interview. I was looking for a system administrator in a medium-sized company with 50 to 300 jobs. The main working OS for me is Linux. Due to the specifics of the work, it is also quite familiar with Microsoft products. Accordingly, I was looking for work one way or another related to Linux.
I must say right away that the attitude towards Linux when applying for a job is rather ambiguous.
And so, in the process of these walks, quite interesting observations were made with no less interesting conclusions.
In the process of communicating with the admins of the companies where I was, a certain classification was developed of these very admins who will interview you:
Warm place- Admins in such offices have stopped in their development. He has his own patrimony, in which he is the sovereign master. The word “swamp” is very appropriate here. Naturally, Windows is installed on all computers in this organization. They write a lot and in detail in the job description, who they need and what they need to be able to do. At the interview, it turns out that they need a boy with no experience (who will work here a year for a penny and leave to grow further). Linux is required there at the level: "Well, I put the ubuntu in the virtual machine at home, and then demolished it." When you start talking about yourself and he understands that you REALLY KNOW THIS, horror appears in his eyes. The interview on this can be considered completed.
The smartest one is very close to the previous type. “I don’t need smart people in the department.”
Corporate policy“We use only Microsoft, this is our standard and we wanted to spit on your Linux.” On the one hand, the corporate standard in IT is just fine, I have two hands for such an approach. Usually it is present in fairly large companies. But on the other hand, this approach gives rise to a very narrow-minded and inflexible policy. Although on the third hand, Microsoft is almost always a unification, including among admins. While in Linux commonly seen attitude: Who else wants one soFingering does, and no sane intra documentation (which is again uncommon) config parsing others is a matter of long and painful. So long that it’s sometimes easier to tear it down and set it up from scratch.
I hate Linux- “here we had the previous admin, a few servers remained from it. Now there is only the gateway on Redhat, so we indicated Linux in the vacancy. But we will definitely get rid of it. ”
I am looking for a successor - the most sane type of the above. Usually he knows what he wants from the candidate, asks specific questions. As a rule, he is one admin in his company. Most often, the situation arises when he "grows" out of his company. Opposite to the first type. These always have a balance between free and proprietary software.
Of course, this list is far from complete. It collects only the basic types.
This is not a nagging, much less an attempt to develop another holivar.
The fact is that the practice of job search has shown who needs where and how to relate to whom.
Draw your own conclusions.
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Andrey Kalinin (my friend, hellish Linuxoid, there is no account on Habr, I publish on his behalf).
Unfortunately, (or vice versa, fortunately), the search period fell at the very height of the crisis: the end of winter - the beginning of spring. Quite a lot had to be like an interview. I was looking for a system administrator in a medium-sized company with 50 to 300 jobs. The main working OS for me is Linux. Due to the specifics of the work, it is also quite familiar with Microsoft products. Accordingly, I was looking for work one way or another related to Linux.
I must say right away that the attitude towards Linux when applying for a job is rather ambiguous.
And so, in the process of these walks, quite interesting observations were made with no less interesting conclusions.
In the process of communicating with the admins of the companies where I was, a certain classification was developed of these very admins who will interview you:
Warm place- Admins in such offices have stopped in their development. He has his own patrimony, in which he is the sovereign master. The word “swamp” is very appropriate here. Naturally, Windows is installed on all computers in this organization. They write a lot and in detail in the job description, who they need and what they need to be able to do. At the interview, it turns out that they need a boy with no experience (who will work here a year for a penny and leave to grow further). Linux is required there at the level: "Well, I put the ubuntu in the virtual machine at home, and then demolished it." When you start talking about yourself and he understands that you REALLY KNOW THIS, horror appears in his eyes. The interview on this can be considered completed.
The smartest one is very close to the previous type. “I don’t need smart people in the department.”
Corporate policy“We use only Microsoft, this is our standard and we wanted to spit on your Linux.” On the one hand, the corporate standard in IT is just fine, I have two hands for such an approach. Usually it is present in fairly large companies. But on the other hand, this approach gives rise to a very narrow-minded and inflexible policy. Although on the third hand, Microsoft is almost always a unification, including among admins. While in Linux commonly seen attitude: Who else wants one so
I hate Linux- “here we had the previous admin, a few servers remained from it. Now there is only the gateway on Redhat, so we indicated Linux in the vacancy. But we will definitely get rid of it. ”
I am looking for a successor - the most sane type of the above. Usually he knows what he wants from the candidate, asks specific questions. As a rule, he is one admin in his company. Most often, the situation arises when he "grows" out of his company. Opposite to the first type. These always have a balance between free and proprietary software.
Of course, this list is far from complete. It collects only the basic types.
This is not a nagging, much less an attempt to develop another holivar.
The fact is that the practice of job search has shown who needs where and how to relate to whom.
Draw your own conclusions.
-
Andrey Kalinin (my friend, hellish Linuxoid, there is no account on Habr, I publish on his behalf).