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Had to look up "SRE": SRE: Site reliability engineer SWE: Software engineer

• ciupicri 16y ago
  It seems that I should have answered acronyms to the "Ask HN: What annoys you?" question[1]. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1560796 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1560796
  • anr 16y ago
    Yes, we should complain to the AAAA. The tried and true American Association for Acronym Abuse can help there.
• wan23 16y ago
  Though remember, this post was aimed at Google employees, who should know what these are.
• illumin8 16y ago
  This confirms my suspicions - SRE are looked at as inferior or "second class citizens" compared to SWE. It also confirms some of the interviewer bias I experienced (I interviewed for an SRE position).
  • dpritchett 16y ago
    It's a measurement issue rather than a value judgement. Reliability is "sales we didn't lose due to downtime" while software is "new sales we couldn't have made without THIS GUY RIGHT HERE!".