> As an outsider, I always imagined Google treated their DevOps people with the same disdain they reserve for their customers and contract employees. This seem

> As an outsider, I always imagined Google treated their DevOps people with the same disdain they reserve for their customers and contract employees. This seems like an odd conclusion. SRE as a role was pioneered by Google (like they literally wrote the book on it https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/ https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/) and they treat it better than most other companies (on-call is compensated and waking hours only, among other things). There are problems with Google's SRE culture, but "thankless" and "like contract employees" are not valid descriptors.