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do you work at google? most engineering roles ive been in engineers absolutely own their systems and take on call rotations.

I agree though, hasty response is the mark of a junior eng




I do, but I don't interview SREs. "Production down" situations are hopefully rare, so the purpose of the interview is to understand if the engineer can plan ahead by adding monitoring, logging, and knobs, and to know how to design for scale. I don't really ask about what to do in a fire because many people don't have that experience.




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