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As a person whose job title is SRE, it’s definitely far less known than sysadmin is (where many non-tech people I talk to know the title) and is still a less kn

As a person whose job title is SRE, it’s definitely far less known than sysadmin is (where many non-tech people I talk to know the title) and is still a less known title than DevOps is. Even if the title was created 20 years ago, I don’t think SRE really started spreading as a term until the last few years. That the title wouldn’t be well known in Europe, or fully known in the US isn’t surprising to me. I’d probably expect someone who works in the start up world to know it, and would expect anyone working at the FANG compensation level to know it, but I don’t think it’s super common among the vast middle of companies. (And for reference, I had know idea what SDET meant until I looked it up right now, although I certainly have worked with Software Development Engineers in Test. Probably an even more obscure term?)

exdsq 4y ago
> That the title wouldn’t be well known in Europe, or fully known in the US isn’t surprising to me. I’d probably expect someone who works in the start up world to know it, and would expect anyone working at the FANG compensation level to know it, but I don’t think it’s super common among the vast middle of companies. I guess that's fair. > (And for reference, I had know idea what SDET meant until I looked it up right now, although I certainly have worked with Software Development Engineers in Test. Probably an even more obscure term?) I'm not sure - I work as an SDET and have found work as an SDET in Oxford and London England, remote in other European countries, and am now interviewing for several companies in the Bay Area. It seems pretty universal to me! But again, maybe that's just down to the bubble one is in. FWIW, it just means a software developer who focuses on testing as opposed to frontend or backend, so managing test infrastructure, reporting, writing frameworks for devs to use for testing, etc etc...

exdsq 4y ago

> That the title wouldn’t be well known in Europe, or fully known in the US isn’t surprising to me. I’d probably expect someone who works in the start up world to know it, and would expect anyone working at the FANG compensation level to know it, but I don’t think it’s super common among the vast middle of companies. I guess that's fair. > (And for reference, I had know idea what SDET meant until I looked it up right now, although I certainly have worked with Software Development Engineers in Test. Probably an even more obscure term?) I'm not sure - I work as an SDET and have found work as an SDET in Oxford and London England, remote in other European countries, and am now interviewing for several companies in the Bay Area. It seems pretty universal to me! But again, maybe that's just down to the bubble one is in. FWIW, it just means a software developer who focuses on testing as opposed to frontend or backend, so managing test infrastructure, reporting, writing frameworks for devs to use for testing, etc etc...