Hiring engineers is a challenging task. Doing it right can be difficult, and many companies struggle with it. I gave a talk at the Velocity conference a while back discussing how LinkedIn’s SRE team solved this problem and how I designed a hiring process that’s fair, interesting, and gets results. If you don’t want to read the whole post, you can just watch the...

Posts by Greg Leffler
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- Topics:
- engineering culture,
- Hiring,
- NYC Engineering,
- SRE
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What Could You Hack in Five Days?
Greg Leffler January 27, 2016
At the end of last year, LinkedIn’s engineering team in New York City took a week away from our normal work rhythms, and focused our energy into one blissful week of building cool new things. It was our own Hack Week, for lack of a better term, because naming things is one of the great computer science problems. Why do Hack Week? At LinkedIn, we already take one...
- Topics:
- Hack Week,
- engineering culture,
- NYC Engineering
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Hiring SREs at LinkedIn
Greg Leffler August 27, 2014
What are LinkedIn SREs? Site Reliability Engineers at LinkedIn are responsible for architecting and operating a reliable, accessible site for our more than 313 million members. We operate over 450 independent services to bring you LinkedIn and are responsible for making sure these services are always available, worldwide, no matter what. This is an awesome...
- Topics:
- engineering culture,
- SRE
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LinkedIn at Velocity Santa Clara 2014
Greg Leffler July 16, 2014
Every year in the early summer, O'Reilly hosts a conference called Velocity in Santa Clara, CA. LinkedIn sponsored Velocity this year,...
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- Conferences,
- Velocity
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A crash course in LinkedIn's global site operations
Greg Leffler September 18, 2013
I commute 3000 miles every day. Virtually, of course. LinkedIn's operations team uses technology to help bridge the thousands of miles...
- Topics:
- Developer Productivity,
- devops,
- day in the life,
- SRE