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by bornfreddy 1349 days ago
Curious: are engineers at Google punished for mistakes? If so, in which cases?
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No. That is insane to even think about. Google practices blameless postmortem processes that focuses on avoiding repeat incidents and fixing processes. This is not just something we write down in books but something we do on a daily basis and believe in it.

The only way I can think of someone being punished is, of course, it was maliciously done.

Disclaimer: I am a Google SRE, opinions my own, not an official comment.

Thank you for the clarification!