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by goosehonk 2390 days ago
Googlers also use it for the daily chat, not just incident response.
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Very specific Googlers, mostly SREs, use IRC.
After I switched from SRE-SWE to just SWE, my team (of six SWEs) used IRC and it wasn't because of my influence, either.
In my experience most SWE teams just use the hangouts chat nowadays