Eh, not necessarily. While the internal SRE education at Google starts with assuming a slightly higher skill floor, we make every new hire go through it. Includ

Eh, not necessarily. While the internal SRE education at Google starts with assuming a slightly higher skill floor, we make every new hire go through it. Including people with a relevant PhD and/or a decade of experience in similar roles. Just making sure everyone is on the same page regarding jargon is probably already worth it. Even funnier, my extended team requires further education in the particular skills we need here. Even an internal transfer with years of Google SRE experience needs to go through it. It’s just cheaper to spend some months on probably repeated training, than to discover a knowledge gap/misaligned intuitions in the form of a large post-mortem.