[Gllug] hourly/daily rate for linux systems admins?

James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton at gmail.com
Thu Nov 25 01:09:17 UTC 2010


On 23 November 2010 11:33, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/21/2010 02:53 PM, JLMS wrote:
>>> completely inverse. There are a fair few sysadmin jobs going with very
>>> few $cluefull applicants around. I know at-least three companies looking
>> Argh, sorry, but if you can't get 2 people out of  60 applicants maybe
>> you have to start to get a hard look back at yourself as a company.
>
> Thats possible, but on the other hand  the reason why those guys didn't
> get selected is also interesting. Most of the guys who came through
> either wanted to only work 2 or 3 days a week, didn't want to do on-call
> and/or were asking for more money than they are worth. Eg. One person
> who came to the interview was unable to confirm how many IP address's a
> single eth interface can host. While another instantly confirmed : 254.
> I don't think either of them deserve the 50k on offer!
>

Yes, but that is a bit of a trick question.
The answer will not be the same on Linux, BSD, Windows or SunOS.
It will probably also vary depending on Linux kernel version.
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