It’s sorta interesting how the replies to this digressed into linguistics about systems architecture, and nobody called out the “elite engineers” statement. I’

It’s sorta interesting how the replies to this digressed into linguistics about systems architecture, and nobody called out the “elite engineers” statement. I’ve worked with a couple of engineers who are now on Wikipedia’s SRE team. They’re good engineers, but not elite by any means. Not “10x” developers or wizards in castles or whatever. Good solid engineers who I would work with again and fight to hire. But they’re not savants or even the top 10% of folks I’ve worked with. Solid mid to sr level engineers I’d be happy to hand a project off to with ambiguous goals and little oversight, and I’d expect them to get a team of 4 or so other engineers to be more productive. These are the engineers who meet the job requirements for SRE positions.