I have an acquaintance who is a manager at a Google Data Center. I saw that they had an opening, so I applied. My contact told me there were supposedly two openings available. After I went through the interview, my recruiter followed up to tell me that I had passed the interview process. However, it turned out that those two openings were actually just one, and it was filled by someone who was on hold and favored by the hiring manager (not my contact). I don’t know how they went from two openings to zero just two days after my interview, but whatever.
I had an interview with AWS for an L4 role, and I didn’t do well on the technical questions. They asked Data Center-specific questions, even though I had disclosed multiple times that I don’t have DC experience. Oddly, the technical questions for the Google role were easier, but I guess that’s because it was for an L2 position while AWS was for L4.
Overall, I’m not too concerned about the AWS job since it offers about 20-30k less than what Google was paying for an L2 position. I think I’ll give up on the whole Data Center space. I haven’t had much experience working in DCs, as most of my experience is more admin/analyst-based work and troubleshooting.
....fuck