That makes me feel really old.

I also went to ROTC field training at Maxwell, and had a similar experience. Once on the way to the dinning hall with another cadet, we were saluted by two new medical officers who were very confused.

A lot of times you have to set a “deadline” when interacting with other teams/orgs, or they will just never get back to you.

> deploying a fix all by myself, no review, for a legacy product that really didn't have a good testing environment.

This sounds like a great way to cause a live-site incident.

It has risks, no doubt about it.

Azure Storage has also had this for years - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/s...

> while your peers are all making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG

Unless you are a manager, in which case you are working more like 12 hour a day.

I know a red badge director (10-15 years) at Amazon who dipped well below 500k due to the last 4 years of stock prices. Though this recent climb has been great for their morale.

By historical standards, we just got back to normal interest rates, the last 15 years was not normal - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds

I'm thinking this might be healthier. When I was a kid it seemed normal that money in the bank would accrue real interest. Now that mine's doing that, something just feels right about it, like things are back in balance. Take my money, loan it out, pay me a little something back.

Yep, it's just a backdoor layoff.

Ya somebody is getting paged right now.

and "ranked down"

Curious: are engineers at Google punished for mistakes? If so, in which cases?

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!

It seems like the Nvidia marketing team should have thought of this before launching the product.

Now now, you can't expect them to think of everything now can you? /s

"The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math."