I value WLB and wonder if Amazon is still similar to its description from 3 years ago. I’d like to app there but it seems like they have the worst WLB in the Seattle area which is particularly off-putting. Opinions/suggestions?
Jesus. I wish I was on your team. I'm in Alexa. I get in at 7 every day, because I'm literally booked solid in meetings from 9:30am to 1:30pm every day. I generally leave the office around 4, but because so much of my day is spent in meetings, I have to log on from home to do my actual work. If I'm lucky, I'll be done by 7pm on a given day, but regularly am working until 10:30. Y'all hiring in EC2?
Curious - why the 4 hour meetings on such a regular schedule? No sarcasm, seriously... isn’t this against some LP... isn’t someone supposed to challenge the 4 hours spent in meetings? Am looking at AWS openings and wondering how deep LPs run on typical daily, work issues like these. Thanks!
Meh, depends on the org. The director has a lot of say on the deliverables and time frames. The "agile" method has been evangalized so much here that it's actually suffocating. I'm in 4 stand-ups a day, 2 daily status meetings, and two triage meetings on bug prioritization on two different product lines. It isn't really conducive to productivity, as I'm an IC engineer and not a manager or a PM. If that were the case, I can understand the necessity for that much time in meetings. Realistically, your mileage may very, but I think that agile development is misunderstood by directors and VPs who have been in the game for a long time. And they just overburden with process until it becomes waterfall again.
Big changes have happened, especially in AWS.
I assume you’re in aws? Could you briefly describe your WLB? Do you carry a pager?
Sure. Yup, EC2 specifically. - generally get into the office between 10-11, with a few exceptions being earlier (mostly special days where hardware needs to be thrown at retail for Black Friday, prime day, cyber Monday, etc). - generally leave between 4-5, with a few exceptions being longer. - lunch is generally an hour, a lot of the time are team lunches at street vendors, etc. - days off aren’t tracked (company policy says they should be, but they aren’t). Just make sure your coworkers are cool with long leaves, and you get your work done. - commute is 20ish minute walk. Of course, this is my team, and may not represent other teams.