Tmobile employees, can you dm your insider promo code if you’re not using it? Thanks. #tmobile #telecom #insider #sprint
Google pioneered employee care. The hardest part was getting in and life was set after that. All you needed was to focus on work without the pressure of deadlines and office politics. Getting it right was more important than getting it fast. Now, it’s not even in top 20 if you’re a good engineer. It...Read more
We’re all gonna be rich anyways. Tech is taking over the world and the companies that survive are gonna carry us all to the swanky upper middle class Just keep grinding out sprint points, obsessively checking graphs, and chasing that promo that’s never going to come until your inevitable death.
As a fresher, joined M$ with expectations to work on latest tech. Work is shit in my org. But didn't quit till now thinking that quitting so early won't be good on resume. It'll take me 6 months prep to get in FNGs. So can't switch immediately even if I wish to. I have done impactful work and 2 off...Read more
I am feeling exhausted and I am only in 30s. I am already tired of the monotony of my work. It doesnt seem to have an end, same sprints, same delivery schedules, same race for promo and TC. The fun Is lost. Is it only me or do other people feel similar. If you aren't, may be something I should learn...Read more
It's getting insane. So many things are in parallel and it is being run with less resources in team which leads to minimum 10-12 hours a day. I work on weekends too! Ops and on-call is pretty brutal. Being straight is one thing, people are straight up rude at Amazon while giving input and asking for...Read more
👆 I feel I’ve a good feature velocity. I’m being honest in providing the timelines and I complete it on time, some team members provide 2-3 sprints as timelines of the thing that could be finished in a week. So the PMs and my manager assign me to work on critical products. But this doesn’t reflec...Read more
I'm a mid level engineer (eyeing senior promo) and my manager has tasked me with mentoring a more junior engineer. My manager specifically asked me to take on this role and mentioned I will need to ensure the junior engineer hits their sprint deliverables. This seems like a whole lot of extra work...Read more
Managers don't sit around completing projects or for that matter debugging or writing code or handling OnCall tickets. Managers are police officers who crack the whip if you slack. Managers also fool you first by painting a good image of the team but then work you to bone during sprints. Managers...Read more
Got put in focus. My fault really, started the year of slow as fuck even after getting an NI rating. Was putting more effort in the last 4 months but my CR count was low. To be fair, the tasks I was picking up for the most part were the more complicated ones and took time. Also I was coasting. Can’t...Read more
Been working on an AWS team for a little over a year now, doing well, honestly great work/life balance (can comfortably finish my sprint with 30 hours a week on average), and was on track for promo to SDE II within 1.5 years. Until multiple management changes and currently without a manager. Promo s...Read more
I did it! Manager broke the news and shared PCS (though I knew a bit earlier 🤐). My promo to Sr. SDE (L6) went through! I was fortunate to have good opportunities on green field projects and take the lead on certain initiatives. Promoted first year to L5 and two years later to L6. What helped me....Read more
We follow the rules better, when we see a traffic cop. But not, when cops are not there. Let it be school or traffic world, we hate strictness. There is always a love for leniency in name of flexibility. So, what kind of manager you prefer? A) A flexible manager - who lets you take time off when...Read more
Uber ceo has set a mandate of 5 diffs/PR per week. Same is now being enforced by Director and manager in team meetings and 1:1s. I am a fairly strong and enthusiastic L4 engineer who always enjoyed developing and delivering projects. Manager already informed that I am performing at L5 beginner level...Read more
I've been on my current team for almost 2 years without any promos. Recently our whole family including our kids contracted COVID. I was not able to focus on work and took a couple of weeks off to recover. When I came back, my manager told me that my performance for this sprint has been lacking an...Read more
L4, $270k, 3yoe If not then how do you get there from L4? Switched orgs late last year. My new TL (L5) left and another L5 became TL. This team is the first time I've seen TLs who don't code a lot. Neither seems to code at all. But TL is still the primary code reviewer for our projects. Rather th...Read more
Update to my post: Turns out this is the hiring manager, not a recruiter. They responded to my email -they wrote me they work hard to make their org a better employer. I believe they have good intentions, but wasn't it Papa Jeff who said that good intentions (by themselves) do not count? Backgrou...Read more
The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-industry-fake-work-problem-bad-managers-bosses-layoffs-jobs-2023-7?_gl=1*j2hb2g*_ga*MTU0MTI4MjQ0Ny4xNjcxNDgzMTg0*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY4OTA1MzQwMy41NTAuMS4xNjg5MDUzNDU1LjguMC4w What is your reaction? Here are some choi...Read more