Re:What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’?
by StreamBright on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:23AM
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When you are applying for SRE outside Google and Amazon or maybe Facebook it mean something entirely different. Usually they just use SRE for describing sysadmins, or a little bit more, maybe adding some automation knowledge. Getting hired as an SRE at Google and Amazon is extremely challenging task, lots of areas where you need to be proficient.
Re:What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’?
by vertex-four on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:03AM
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I would suggest that what other companies call "SREs" is not likely to be what Google calls SREs, given the difficulty of implementing it correctly.
I am a recently graduating (this summer) CS undergrad from India and was offered the chance to interview for a customer service offering company (think Zendesk) for the role of a Site Reliability Engineer. The take home tests they gave me heavily reflected that they were looking for an engineer instead of a sysadmin as nowhere during the interview did they discuss about anything other than Chef, Terraform, Nginx and other things that mainly deal with deployment and devops and have very little to do with "reliability". They didn't have anything about networks or fault-tolerance.
PS: I really liked the interview process though in that they had take home tests and there was a good depth of discussion relating to those tests the next day. I eventually won't be joining them because of some information about their office culture in their India office. Sad.