As a SWE, how much Operations and support work do you do as part of your overall work load? Please only vote if you're a SWE and not SRE, PE, DevOps, etc as those roles usually have much more Ops.
Would be helpful to comment your company, percentage of Ops work, and what area you work in (full-stack, backend, infra, etc)
I'll start. Currently at FB on a product team doing full-stack work. Don't have any Ops work.
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It also carries over better to other jobs/teams.
Also, are there any parts of your ops work that you think aren't good for learning/experience and would rather live without?
Ops load depends on which stage of product cycle you're in. Early on, it is a lot. At the very mature stage, there is minimal since SREs take over and need minimal support from the dev team.
I know folks in Bing who haven't had to resolve a single on-site issue in over a year
Building packages, assembling deployment pipelines, orchestrating/managing deployments, db/system administration, trouble shooting customer issues, configuration management. Usually stuff that doesn't directly involve designing or writing software