Uh, I can literally see thousands of crashes happening all the time. You think there isn't a .01% chance of hardware going bad or hitting kernel bugs?

The point of SRE is to have a team dedicated to scaling/resilience to balance the tension between product pushing to ship features.

If SRE cannot throttle the release cadence or fix bugs or change architecture in binaries, it's not really SRE.

It's not amazon or meta, but it's not a 'chill job' like I hear about MSFT or other places. YMMV, just my experience.

It wasn't a 'instead of layoffs' it was 'ok if you're burned out, here's your exit'.

Maybe they were L3s? Maybe it's EU?

I mean if I'm going to make really large generalizations about Software Engineering talent by country, Swiss people are the absolute bottom of the barrel maybe followed by the cheap outsourcing countries next, but ymmv.

I'm also sure i've worked with a lot more very good Indian engineers than German engineers here in America, but that might have more to do with who immigrates here.

Also keep in mind GCP has a global network so it's possible some other regions are seeing disconnects/packet drops, though the source of the issue is contained to a single datacenter.

Are your peers more ambitious than mine or are their ambitions to travel for cheap and watch as much netflix as possible?

(This is obviously not true of my coworkers/friends from work who can all afford kids and most choose to)

I'm honestly curious if it's better to have some outlet for people who love gambling, and just have some cap, vs trying to ban it altogether.