GradientDescenting t1_jd79sio wrote
If anything engineering is understaffed at amazon, many core teams pulling 60-80 hour weeks plus 24-7 oncall 1 out of every 5-6 weeks
MeowCables t1_jd87i4o wrote
Can confirm, worked 8am-1am Tuesday. I was bed-ridden sick Monday and still got on a conference call on my phone to help a teammate. We both knew it was messed up, but the deadlines don’t care.
They fired my manager because he refused to downsize our team 10% while we work 12-15h daily and he was begging for more help or to drop work. He was a minority leader too in our org.
This is not the company I originally joined, its been reinvented into a toxic waste. There’s so many good people, sad that most stay out of leadership.
Demonicplaydoh t1_jd7yc7h wrote
Indeed, from what I was reading about Amazon six months ago overstaffing seemed the least likely scenario. But then I don't have a publicity arm to generate news articles, I just read comments in tech subs.
caughtinthought t1_jd8g909 wrote
Highly dependent on org. In my org there are a ton of "engineers" that probably write ten lines of code a week.
sonic_butthole_music t1_jd8knht wrote
To be fair, they can do with 10 lines what a lesser engineer would need 14 for
icenoid t1_jd8lozj wrote
How much of that is the terrible internal processes. When I worked there a few years ago, the Alexa team I was on seemed to be hamstrung by old and very outdated tech and processes. MRs took forever to get through the system
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HoldOrg t1_jdaasid wrote
I can confirm, have one ticket in to an engineering team that hasn't been touched in a year.
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