It has become routine in Amazon, AWS to be specific, to bring in managers who will stay for an year and ruin the career of all his/her direct reporters so that all those poor souls' yearly compensation is taken away. #increaseprofit The latest incident happened with this year's annual review. One such team to keep in mind is AWS Lambda which is undergoing a huge churn over. They brought in a person who has a contracting background with no people management skills. With his experience working for Trump campaign, he leveraged his dirty politics to push out most of the experienced engineers and hire his old colleagues. The projects that used to take a few weeks were elongated to months to keep his favorites employed. And now this person is moving on leaving behind a fucked up compensation for cherry picked direct reports.
The entire retail org is like thsf
Dirty trick used by many managers (even executuves) - bring along people they like to work with(sometimes it works out) and have their kingdom established
Itâs called âEmpire Buildingâ
That sucks! The service will get wrecked Azure will take over. Hopefully they fix this.
No one must like working with me
Drop the name!
Did he actually work for Trump campaign because that would be hilarious. Dish it out
Is he in the âDonald J Trumpâ PhoneTool community?
This is very true, PMs and PMTs are pretty much used like tissues. But I do not believe saving money is the motive behind this toxic culture. Every L7/L8 manager needs to show results or get rid of people from team so that they consistently maintain their status quo. Be extremely careful when you apply âDisagree and commitâ. What seems to be ideal Amazon principle in reality will transpire into expensive mistake and overnight career suicide. Most of the principles are aligned in theory and reality. But when you are close to money making machine like AWS, use your common sense, donât get screwed!
Iâve never had this happen to me or witnessed it. Name the people OP, donât just blast entire orgs like this. Help us out.
There were many people who raised concerns about him to upper management (7&8) and they all had to either move out or take his shit. It is a clear indication of org culture more than anything. I know people who had somewhat similar situations in another AWS team as well. If they don't treat people with respect, they are digging their own graves. I don't think naming out the person and shaming him here will do any good but at the same time would like to give you all a heads up.
Well, if you tell people who to avoid, that does far more good than the little damage it does to that person. Casting a net over an entire org because you witnessed something bad in a team or two does far more damage to the many teams that function normally. Go directly after the problem, and avoid as little blast radius as possible.
Tell the names. Donât be generic !
Michael Bolton
Please donât tell false names. This is about Amazon and not Microsoft.