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Google 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 m
by dilyevsky 6y ago
Google 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.