Does your company have an Employee Experience dept? I want to know whether it's a fad or if they actually do useful work?
Amazon has a “Voice of the Developer” group, which runs an annual tech survey. It’s useful in that if you’re thinking of switching teams, you can check the sentiment on it (are they overworked, is there a lot of thrash, how much time is operational vs building, etc)
Never heard that before, very interesting indeed. Do people answer honestly? Any concerns about anonymity or retaliation?
They take anonymity VERY seriously. Like SVPs aren’t allowed access to the database, even if they ask for it. The data is put in a public-to-internal report and can get filtered on a number of attribute (e.g. team, role, YoE, etc), but if a given question would then have less than 4 respondents, the data won’t be shown for that question.
Are you talking about a team within HR?
I know that they are usually under HR, so yes.
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That will largely depend on what you consider useful. It seems many here think anything that isn’t SWE is useless.
Is there a separate dept at Facebook? Did you see any benefit from them?