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I mean Google could stop being completely elitist with SREs needing to come from SWE backgrounds and hire the thousands of SRE/Sysadmin/Ops types who do know sy
by mjayhn 6y ago
I mean Google could stop being completely elitist with SREs needing to come from SWE backgrounds and hire the thousands of SRE/Sysadmin/Ops types who do know systems very well but have a lot/bit less SWE background and let their SWEs contribute to mentoring them on SWE stuff.
Pipe dream of mine, for sure.
There's been at least 3 G SREs that have posted in here about what they do day to day and it's literally no different from any other non-FAANG SRE/Ops role any of us do at various scales except for the gatekeeping.
- dilyevsky 6y agoGoogle does hire SRE SEs and I interviewed many - the focus on coding is a lot less and they get grilled more on systems etc. it’s important to have a healthy mixture of both or you run into eng culture issues like described by many posters here
- jldugger 6y ago> Google does hire SRE SEs and I interviewed many For those who aren't familiar with the google acroynm soup: SE here means systems engineer not software engineer(SWE).
- kazen44 6y agoAlso, a systems engineer usually has a different way of thinking about a problem then a software engineer and vice versa. This helps tremendously in troubleshooting and building stable products. Having a combination of systems, networking and programming "perspective" on a team seems to result in very robust systems all around.
- joshuamorton 6y agoFwiw about half of the sres I know at Google come from sysadmin or help desk roles within Google.