Wow, that's amazing to read, having served as a de-facto SRE (like every other SDE) at an unnamed competitor to GCE, where I was expected to stay up all night i

Wow, that's amazing to read, having served as a de-facto SRE (like every other SDE) at an unnamed competitor to GCE, where I was expected to stay up all night if necessary to resolve an issue (relatively few teams had follow-the-sun coverage). I swore I would never carry a pager again after that, but maybe Google really is different.