It’s standard. Career ladder [1] sets expectation for each level. Performance is measured against those expectations. Outages don’t negatively impact a single e

It’s standard. Career ladder [1] sets expectation for each level. Performance is measured against those expectations. Outages don’t negatively impact a single engineer. The key difference is the perspective. If reliability is bad that’s an organizational problem and blaming or punishing one engineer won’t fix that. [1] An example ladder from Patreon: https://levels.patreon.com/ https://levels.patreon.com/