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SRECon USA 2016: Growing your Entry Level Talent

  1. ​ Michael Kehoe ​ Senior SRE ​ LinkedIn College Student to SRE: Onboarding your Entry Level Talent ​ Nina Mushiana ​ SRE Manager ​ LinkedIn
  2. 3 Topics ● Who are we? ● Background ● Onboarding ● Training ● Mentoring ● Managing ● Lessons Learnt
  3. 4 $ whoami who-are-we
  4. 5 My Journey
  5. Who / What are they? 6 Your ELT’s ● Just graduated from College ● May/May not have enterprise experience ● High aptitude for fast learning ● Non-jaded, highly impressionable/ idealistic thinkers
  6. 7 22% SRE Hires were ELT’s in 2015
  7. Before Day 1 8 Onboarding your Talent ● Mentor/ Manager correspondence ● Company merchandise
  8. Day 1 9 Onboarding your Talent ● Reaffirm decision to join LinkedIn ● Enforce company values ● New Hire Roadmap
  9. Post Day 1 10 Onboarding your Talent ● Engineering Bootcamp ● SRE Onboarding checklist ● StartIn Program
  10. 11 Training your Talent ● Provide a strong set of ‘get up to speed’ classes/ documents ● For ELT’s, extra background material may help ○ e.g. High Scalability Blog ● Technical resource they can talk to (i.e. mentor) ● Non-technical training
  11. 12 Mentoring your Talent ● Pair with best engineer(s) ● Clone ● Someone to reach out to ● Traits
  12. 13 Managing your Talent ● Support ● Opportunities and career ● 1:1 ● Acknowledgement ● Morale ● Boring work
  13. 14 Lessons Learned ● Relationships matter ● Technical skills only get you so far ● Value your time
  14. 15 Advice for ELT’s ● Make the most of the resources around you ● It’s always better to ask questions than to assume and break something ● Always use feedback as a motivator to improve ​ ​
  15. Questions? 16 ?
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  17. 18 Onboarding your Talent ● Introduce: ○ Company Values ○ Expectations ○ Workplace culture ● Give them: ○ A short-term & longer-term roadmap of what their role will encompass ○ Flexibility
  18. Hiring your Talent
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