SDM moving from Amazon to Google, any advice for ex amazonians at Google?
Hi I got accepted on Google as Engineering Manager (480k TC L6, Kirkland). Any advice from Amazonians who moved there in terms of culture, practices, set for success...etc? Anything you will share to someone moving there? Thanks
Can you please tell total YOE and managerial YOE? Also, some RC breakdown maybe
Join the ex-Amazon mailing list, you’ll get great resources to help you transition. You may find it challenging to let go of some things that were the norm at Amazon, like working long hours with too few resources, being grilled on metrics every week, and aggressively managing out your bottom performers. Take your time to learn the culture and find the groove, and you can be very happy at Google. The Google Blind forum is radically different from the Amazon one. You may even drop out of Blind entirely.
Always your team first. Then you. Remember that
You betrayed Jeff!
Can you share some insights into the interviewing process for aspiring candidates?
Don’t get upset when your team doesn’t want to work and has no respect for committed timelines.
Can you elaborate please? How do teams get anything done in that case?
Things get done when they get done. Asking for a date or telling a date... god I’ve never seen so much push back. I literally had a lead tell me that it is impossible to predict dates on software projects.
Try not to be frugal there 😊