SF Reliability Engineering - September Talks

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We're always looking for 20-30 minute technical talks (and 5-8 minute lightning talks) relating to the very broad field of Reliability Engineering. Get in touch with the organizers if you'd like to present!

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Talks:

Title: Hiring Great SREs by Brian Rutkin

Abstract:
Hiring is hard. Hiring in tech is often harder because we tend to focus on concrete, measurable skills and often ignore or devalue soft skills since they’re not as easy to evaluate.

Everyone should be invested in the hiring practices at their company because these are the people that are going to make your company grow and be successful and these are the people you’re going to interact with every day, possibly for years.

In this structured talk I will offer some directed ways of thinking about hiring, conducting interviews, and performing valuations. While the major benefit is in shifting your thinking on the hiring process, I will also provide some concrete examples that can be used in practice. There may not be a single recipe everyone can follow but we can all cook with the same set of ingredients.

Bio:
Brian (pronouns: he/him) is a Sr. Staff SRE at Twitter where he works on Core Services and all the things they touch (so pretty much everything). Often that means just trying to ensure all the different services and people get along together.