u/imvmanish

Hi everyone,

I’m a bit confused about whether I should make this move and would really appreciate some advice.

My experience so far:

1st company: 2.5 years, including internship

2nd company: 1.5 years

3rd company: 6 months so far, currently SDE3

I have an opportunity to move to another company as Software Engineer 2. I had actually received the offer from them earlier, but couldn’t join at the time.

The role is more aligned with the kind of software engineering work I want to do long term, but the compensation is slightly lower than my current company and the title would technically be a level below my current SDE3 role.

Would making this move look bad on my resume? Would recruiters/HR see it as a red flag, especially since I’d be moving after only 6 months in my current company and this would be my 4th company?

I’m more concerned about the long-term career impact than the immediate compensation.

Would really appreciate perspectives from people who have been in a similar situation.

TL;DR: Where do you guys learn about the actual SRE practices of other companies? Looking for the really interesting stuff, not generic SRE advice.

I’ve always wondered how people know what companies like Netflix, Google, Meta etc. are doing internally.

Someone might say, “What we’re doing is pretty good, but Netflix does this 5x better.”

And I’m like, how do you even know what Netflix is doing? 😂

I want to find those “wait, companies actually do this?” kind of things.

How they handle incidents, test failures, observability, chaos, massive traffic, internal tooling, etc.

Where do you guys find this stuff? Tech talks, blogs, conference talks, postmortems, YouTube, GitHub, specific people to follow?

Basically looking for a goldmine of this kind of information.