David

"I ended up turning down like Meta and square to go work for, uh, simple, which had start was known as Bank Simple."

"I think the most important thing SREs and SRMs do is just care about if things work and if they produce more value than it costs to keep them going."

"Then we always have to look after that at like, what is the long-term implications of whatever just happened and seat those."

"As a manager, human empathy is really important. You can't be a good manager without understanding the people you're working with are people."

"I also really enjoy working at Google Cloud because it is a crazy bespoke planetary scale network with completely custom everything."

"Everything that is great is also super challenging. It's very challenging developing people. It's very challenging working on things at planetary scale."

"I think the thing I enjoy most about it is this idea that we can solve problems that we see out in the world."

"I think it really takes all kinds, and I don't think there's a single archetype. This is probably 'cause software's kind of a young industry."

"Coding is an essential skill, but it's not the most important thing. The actual value is making impact and organizing the effort to build products or software."

"My recommendation is just to work in software and try to be flexible about what jobs you take."

"If you start to feel a little bit bad, that's probably a much bigger sign than you realize. Listen to that pace yourself."

"meeting with lots of my professors when I was doing upper division classes. They were really, really receptive to me, like helping them."

"Since you understand that you need the support, you are naturally drawn to it."