> A Google site-reliability engineer starts work at 9 a.m., leaves at 7 p.m., and works in the evenings until about 10 p.m. He's on constant alert because he must respond to urgent pages within 5 minutes. "Go home at 7pm with my backpack and fully charged laptop. If I get a page on the road I need to pull over and get on the system in 5 mins to start debugging. An email alert can wait until i get home.
Can anyone please comment on the veracity of this quote? I'm interested in a SRE position and I was researching details a while ago and the only info I found on work hours was someone saying that, given that Google has employees all around the world, you don't really need to do crazy hours or night shifts.
However, the comment above indicates 12 hour workdays, which is insane. Is that every day? How does it compare to a Software Engineer position at Google?
Can anyone please comment on the veracity of this quote? I'm interested in a SRE position and I was researching details a while ago and the only info I found on work hours was someone saying that, given that Google has employees all around the world, you don't really need to do crazy hours or night shifts. However, the comment above indicates 12 hour workdays, which is insane. Is that every day? How does it compare to a Software Engineer position at Google?