> The SRE organization remained. The SRE organization that we’d built was gone.

Sad :(.

> That’s not to say the experience was entirely good. Working at that era of Uber extracted a toll. Many others paid a much worse price; I paid one too. I was in way over my head as a leader, and I struggled with it. On a work trip ramping up the Uber Lithuania office, my partner of seven years called to let me know they’d moved out. Writing had been my favorite hobby, but I gave up on writing during my time there. Some chapters enrich our lives without being something we’d repeat, and Uber is certainly one of those chapters for me.

As someone very early in their career, I would still take that experience in a heartbeat. Just by observation, I strongly believe that kind of experience is both extremely rare and extremely valuable.