If I was lying, may Amazon's lawyers strike me down and take me to court! I would love to reveal my experiences there, and of course, the truth is an unbeatable defense. I certainly have more salacious tidbits than the Ellen Pao trial revealed. Including personal experiences with Jeff Bozo.
>Thinking AWS holds most of the engineers really shows how uninformed you are.
Telling a lie about me to attempt to impeach my point is what's known as ad hominem.
>As an engineer, your manager WILL BE a former SDE.
FALSE. During my time there I had multiple managers (due to re-orgs.) and NOT ONE of them was a former SDE.
Not one of them was competent enough to manage programmers. None of them knew what a service oriented architecture was, or how version control worked (they thought of it as a backup), or how to write a simple program in ANY language. And this was true all the way between me and Bezos.
>The type of "stack ranking" people refer to as being evil is not the same that's practiced at Amazon
FALSE. It is exactly the same, with managers having to lobby, and whole teams of people who are "out of favor" with an upper manager getting lower salary because of the higher level stack.
>I have very little contact with "business" people, and they in no way determine how much I get paid
You impeach yourself by admitting that Amazon uses stack ranking which directly contradicts this claim.
Amazon is a terrible place to work at-- in an extensive career, it was, by far, the worst job.
Not only because of the problems, but because the management doesn't give a damn, and is actually hostile to employees-- that's what makes it really bad.
All companies have problems. Amazon has fundamental disrespect for engineers.
>Thinking AWS holds most of the engineers really shows how uninformed you are.
Telling a lie about me to attempt to impeach my point is what's known as ad hominem.
>As an engineer, your manager WILL BE a former SDE.
FALSE. During my time there I had multiple managers (due to re-orgs.) and NOT ONE of them was a former SDE.
Not one of them was competent enough to manage programmers. None of them knew what a service oriented architecture was, or how version control worked (they thought of it as a backup), or how to write a simple program in ANY language. And this was true all the way between me and Bezos.
>The type of "stack ranking" people refer to as being evil is not the same that's practiced at Amazon
FALSE. It is exactly the same, with managers having to lobby, and whole teams of people who are "out of favor" with an upper manager getting lower salary because of the higher level stack.
>I have very little contact with "business" people, and they in no way determine how much I get paid
You impeach yourself by admitting that Amazon uses stack ranking which directly contradicts this claim.
Amazon is a terrible place to work at-- in an extensive career, it was, by far, the worst job.
Not only because of the problems, but because the management doesn't give a damn, and is actually hostile to employees-- that's what makes it really bad.
All companies have problems. Amazon has fundamental disrespect for engineers.