[23david]

Google's SRE team will continue to get people coming straight out of college, but for people with startup industry experience I don't see how it's an awesome opportunity. Most of the interesting SRE work and innovation that I see today is happening at startups.

If Larry or Sergei call up personally and give you a blank check to start your own team/project, (and let you open-source your work...) maybe that'd be a different story.

But otherwise, seems like working elsewhere will be the better option if you care about experience/skills over climbing the corporate ladder and having an easy paycheck.

[philsnow]

> Most of the interesting SRE work and innovation that I see today is happening at startups.

Can you give some examples of some pieces of interesting SRE work that is happening at startups ? I'm curious.

I think the SRE role is still misunderstood a bit outside Google. Few startups that I'm aware of (there are a few, mind) care enough about "Reliability" to make a dedicated reliability engineer among the first 50 employees.