You may be saying it in jest but I've seen it to be true (sample size of 1). I am a recently graduating (this summer) CS undergrad from India and was offered t

You may be saying it in jest but I've seen it to be true (sample size of 1). I am a recently graduating (this summer) CS undergrad from India and was offered the chance to interview for a customer service offering company (think Zendesk) for the role of a Site Reliability Engineer. The take home tests they gave me heavily reflected that they were looking for an engineer instead of a sysadmin as nowhere during the interview did they discuss about anything other than Chef, Terraform, Nginx and other things that mainly deal with deployment and devops and have very little to do with "reliability". They didn't have anything about networks or fault-tolerance. PS: I really liked the interview process though in that they had take home tests and there was a good depth of discussion relating to those tests the next day. I eventually won't be joining them because of some information about their office culture in their India office. Sad.