I'm interviewing a friend and coworker who is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). She's been doing some form of DevOps for many years now, and has a LOT of experience that's relevant to early- and mid-career folks. 0:00 Introduction 1:28 SRE and Devops Project Work 3:05 Company Size and Specialization 5:24 Jobs before tech 6:00 Getting into tech 6:50 University Degree and Skills 8:20 Why get into tech? 9:29 Dave's passion ninja 10x engineer rant 10:06 Applying to tech jobs 10:50 Experience as a Tech Apprentice 12:51 Advice: Starting from Zero 14:00 Core Skill: Solo Learning 15:27 Most interesting DevOps/SRE work 18:11 Different company cultures 19:13 Ideal company culture 22:52 Surprises when getting into tech 24:54 It's OK not to know everything 26:10 Skills that new tech people neglect 29:54 Tech skills that people neglect 32:35 Where is DevOps going in the future? 34:27 "I think it could get weird" 38:00 It's crazy to "plan" for the future 39:00 Erin's final advice to new tech people