[hedora]

We tried to hire senior devs to do DevOps work, but the ones that can pass the interview and have already been at a DevOps shop are too smart to be fooled a second time.

We still use all the DevOps buzzword stacks, but we stopped doing dev ops. Instead, we are building out a really good ops team. This makes it possible to hire developers again.

Personally, I'm one of the better ops people on the developer side of the fence, but I'd need at least 2x typical principle engineer comp to take another job at a DevOps shop, and also wouldn't get even a quarter of my normal productivity.

At that point, you may as well just hire a junior undergrad graduate and burn the rest of your cash.