[dilyevsky]

Google does hire SRE SEs and I interviewed many - the focus on coding is a lot less and they get grilled more on systems etc. it’s important to have a healthy mixture of both or you run into eng culture issues like described by many posters here

[kazen44]

Also, a systems engineer usually has a different way of thinking about a problem then a software engineer and vice versa.

This helps tremendously in troubleshooting and building stable products.

Having a combination of systems, networking and programming "perspective" on a team seems to result in very robust systems all around.

[jldugger]

> Google does hire SRE SEs and I interviewed many

For those who aren't familiar with the google acroynm soup: SE here means systems engineer not software engineer(SWE).