SRE bar?

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Aug 25, 2018 10 Comments

Currently a Sys Eng at Amazon.

Is the SRE bar at Google the same as a SWE? I heard that a lot of SWEs are recruited to become SREs.

Also what is the preferred/most popular language for SREs over at Google? Go/Python?

The job postings I see are listed as Systems Engineering - SRE

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  • Google / Eng
    xgFH17

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    xgFH17
    I don’t think SRE here writes much code. I don’t think the interview may be much different perhaps more focus on sysadmin
    Aug 25, 2018 2
  • Apple / Eng
    Anyb0dy

    Go to company page Apple Eng

    Anyb0dy
    SREs are of two types here at Google (yes i am at Google) :

    1. Sys Admin SREs (who does mostly pushes and other day to day routine tasks).
    2. SWE SRE (who writes toolchains for SREs to do push effectively).

    So if you are going for the sys admin side then coding questions should be easy to medium. But if you are going to SWE SRE then expect full fledged SWE level interview.
    Aug 25, 2018 4
    • Amazon
      eminence

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      eminence
      OP
      Is there any specific languages that are heavily used in SRE roles? Looking to pickup Python more and curious to know if that’s popular over there
      Aug 26, 2018
    • BioTel Heart
      a5a5a9

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      a5a5a9
      @Danzaa I sent you a private message , I have similar goal for 2021 to get a SWE-SRE offer .
      Sep 15, 2020
  • New
    h7xh4

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    h7xh4
    sre interview for me was easy on the code, hard on systems
    Feb 5, 2019 1