Building and Running a Diversity-focused Pre-internship Program for SRE
summary
12-week remote pre-internship trains about 96 students with Linux Foundation content and Major League Hacking administration, combines weekly mock interviews, mentorship pods, and a final Dockerized Flask app deployed to cloud project; 95 graduates complete the curriculum, ~50% land tech roles and 23 report SRE titles, and organizers run weekly standups and pair projects while planning earlier project work, more interview practice, pod surveys, and better recruiting tracking.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:24Welcome
- 1:49Diversity is a Problem
- 3:00Early Career Hiring
- 5:02Early Career Hiring at Meta
- 6:27PreInternship Fellowship Program
- 7:40What would such a program look like
- 8:58How to create an actual program
- 10:34The Meta Team
- 14:05Fellowship Outline
- 15:32Fellowship Interaction
- 16:20Results
- 16:55Do fellows understand what SRE is
- 17:50Did fellows get jobs
- 19:01What needs improvement
- 22:20How to scale
- 24:56How can you help
- 26:32Outro
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