> One continual challenge Google faces is hiring SREs: not only does SRE compete for the same candidates as the product development hiring pipeline, but the fact that we set the hiring bar so high in terms of both coding and system engineering skills means that our hiring pool is necessarily small.
I was thinking, ok so does this mean the book is completely useless for most companies in the world, since they don't have such standards for hiring people or run DevOps this way? How much of the rest of the book is still applicable?
There is some generally useful stuff in there, but it probably fits in a few pages vs a full book.