IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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Has anyone here gone from Individual Contributor to Manager?
How did you go about the transition? Were there any pitfalls?
Finally - what advice would you give to someone that wanted to follow the same path?
How did you go about the transition? Were there any pitfalls?
Finally - what advice would you give to someone that wanted to follow the same path?
AlwaysLurkin
Superstar
Were the courses all separate or is all of that in some kind of bundle? Was gonna try a course on comptia but it's about $4k
Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
These courses are SCAMS but I do understand that they are highly desirable so they want to make money of people. The reality the books are available online free, you can always use quizlet and you can create ur own linux virtual machine. See if you can find the books on pdfdrive.com, study the book and all the information on youtube since people teach different ways, you maybe able to understand some better than others.
FistofJustice
Pro
Hi guys,
Just thought I'd give an update. I am back to wfh! Thankful I will be working remotely until the end of the year, which I am really thankful for because yhat LA traffic was brutal!
I've been learning so much and gaining so many new skills. Starting to get the hang of Linux and getting more comfortable navigating within the directories. I joined the licensing team we have for our department and recently started implementing changes on our Linux servers as well as doing license renewals. We work 9-hour shifts and usually, I'm exhausted, but I love it here. Probably one of the best companies I've ever worked for so many benefits and perks. We even get a paid week off for xmas/new years!
Also, just recently passed the Azure Fundamentals and am currently studying for the Az-104. During our team meeting, we learned we'd be getting access to Azure training as that is what our company uses! I'm going to have them start paying for my certs.
My plan is to stick with the position for the rest of the year and hopefully early 2022 I can transfer to another department/team. I've been networking like crazy and a majority of the people I'm meeting in the technology department used to be former System Admins and now they're on the soft dev , the cloud team and etc. Seems like it is very easy to move around.
Just thought I'd give an update. I am back to wfh! Thankful I will be working remotely until the end of the year, which I am really thankful for because yhat LA traffic was brutal!
I've been learning so much and gaining so many new skills. Starting to get the hang of Linux and getting more comfortable navigating within the directories. I joined the licensing team we have for our department and recently started implementing changes on our Linux servers as well as doing license renewals. We work 9-hour shifts and usually, I'm exhausted, but I love it here. Probably one of the best companies I've ever worked for so many benefits and perks. We even get a paid week off for xmas/new years!
Also, just recently passed the Azure Fundamentals and am currently studying for the Az-104. During our team meeting, we learned we'd be getting access to Azure training as that is what our company uses! I'm going to have them start paying for my certs.
My plan is to stick with the position for the rest of the year and hopefully early 2022 I can transfer to another department/team. I've been networking like crazy and a majority of the people I'm meeting in the technology department used to be former System Admins and now they're on the soft dev , the cloud team and etc. Seems like it is very easy to move around.
DaRealness
I think very deeply
Got word yesterday that Amazon is going to be sending me an offer next week. It’s for a solutions architect role in pre sales.
That was the hardest interview I’ve ever done. 5 hour long interviews in 8 hours, including an hour long presentation. After the interview I was 100% sure I bombed the presentation part and they were gonna bush me.
The interview format was an hour long technical screening and then the 8 hour loop interview. In the loop the questions were 75% behavioral and based on their leadership principles. And you have to answer the questions in a specific format. It was ridiculous.
That was the hardest interview I’ve ever done. 5 hour long interviews in 8 hours, including an hour long presentation. After the interview I was 100% sure I bombed the presentation part and they were gonna bush me.
The interview format was an hour long technical screening and then the 8 hour loop interview. In the loop the questions were 75% behavioral and based on their leadership principles. And you have to answer the questions in a specific format. It was ridiculous.
Snoopy Loops
All Star
Congrats. What did the technical portion go over?
Mostly random basics…nothing AWS related until the presentation part.
For example “what is the difference between tcp and udp”. You answer that and then it’s another follow up question. You answer that and then it’s another question…that keeps going until they stump you. Other questions are things like “what is dns”, or “what happens when you type Amazon.com in your browser address bar and hit enter”.
It’s basically nothing you would have thought to prepare for. But I went on Glassdoor after the interview and literally all the questions were there.
my presentation was a design based on AWS so for that part I got grilled to death with AWS questions. I had a 7 slide presentation and didn’t make it past slide 3 because there was so many questions.
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Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
What would be a typical design base questions? Did you have very hands on experience with aws? Also what would be the salary range?
For design it was stuff like…
explain the traffic flow from users on the internet to your applications
If I want to scale this 100x is their any limitations if so how would you handle tha
describe how you approached security in this design…and then they try their best to poke holes in your shyt
And yes I had AWS experience for about a year and had both the AWS SA associate and professional certs.
As far as salary, I have no idea….I’ll find out next week
Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
Cool!! Thanks for the intel! good luck!!
AlwaysLurkin
Superstar
Help me out guys..would this lead me to a cybersecurity career ? 2 year associates degree for $38k 