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No it's quite an accurate title and I don't think it's inflated. It's not really considered something prestigious.

• trhway 4y ago
  It is presented as prestigious in order to hire at least somebody into it. While, depending on place, work may be interesting the management usually is more rotten than say in dev.
• thematrixturtle 4y ago
  It's considered prestigious by other engineers. Outside engineering, not so much. At one point in my career I moved from a technical presales role to SRE. The engineers congratulated me on the promotion, while the sales people all thought it was a demotion. (And in terms of career progression it probably was.)
  • tristor 4y ago
    > It's considered prestigious by other engineers. I'd love to see some evidence of that. I have never been in an organization where Ops folks and SREs are treated as if those roles are prestigious by other people in the engineering org. Generally they're treated like digital janitors, and assumed to be bad at software development. I've literally had an SWE /at work/ say to my face that "You're in Ops because you weren't smart enough to pass a code interview" because they were upset I had pointed out a flaw in their design and were essentially making an appeal to the nebulous authority of their title. SRE is definitely more prestigious than being in technical presales to other engineers, but that's because to other engineers any role in the sales org is not real engineering (even if it is), and to sales people anything in the engineering org is a demotion because it means you are joining "the basement people". Sales people aspire to becoming a CEO, not to building something that makes a mark on the world. Engineers want to build the thing, they don't care /how/ they have to go about doing it (whether that's being a founder/ceo or working in the basement).