rone | the honeymoon's over (Reply)

Working at Netflix combines the joy of working for a large company that has a corporate culture laden with baggage that results from their vaunted "Rules Annoy Us" core value, with the joy of working for a startup where people are scrabbling to get things done because they can't be arsed to improve the process because everything is changing at a stupidly fast pace. Tomorrow i get to find out whether they truly value my courage, honesty, and passion, because after this week i'm seriously tired of seeing people in my group either running around like headless chickens herding cats, or clicking buttons like experimental monkeys.

I was told when i was interviewed that the goal of hiring senior-level sysadmins for a NOC (there are a few of us here, and we agree on what i'm bitching about here) was part of a grand plan to raise the NOC's level to something impressive and worthy of, i dunno, a company like Netflix. Tomorrow i'm gonna ask what the plan is and when we get started on it; i know that one big part of it is getting a monitoring system that isn't a piece of shit, but the putative replacement has been in the wings for six months and just semi-officially got off the ground last week, and, well, we were told to make sure that the new system's alerts matched the old system's alerts, and they aren't even fucking close. If someone doesn't get fired over this fiasco (and Netflix loves to fire people), i think that i will have to seriously consider whether my sanity is worth my very generous salary.

Now that i'm at a point in my career where i actually, finally, know what i want to do and where i want to go, i really don't want to spin my wheels, and i need to find out whether my shiny new boss (who has already given pause to some in the group) and boss's boss (who is a Netflix veteran but has only been with our group for two months) are going to tell me something good. If not, i know that there's a recent opening in the sysadmin group, and i'll talk to the boss over there to see what my options are.