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At Google, the answer is a firm no. Someone else commented on the "we just spent a million dollars training them, why would we fire them now?" quote which is co
by wrsh07 10y ago
At Google, the answer is a firm no. Someone else commented on the "we just spent a million dollars training them, why would we fire them now?" quote which is commonly thrown around.
People get fired for leaks and being intentionally malicious, not mistakes. Even expensive ones. [besides, a big outage is usually caused by multiple smaller issues if your systems are sufficiently reliable. Also, read the SRE book about "blameless postmortems"]
- jrcii 10y agoI was watching this talk on Google's SRE and the speaker explains in depth why the answer at Google is indeed no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vMcD7zKM0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vMcD7zKM0 She explains the emphasis is more on learning from the problem and post-mortem than pointing fingers.