A friend who works at Google said he wanted to switch to bi weekly sprints on his team. His manager took him aside and said they don't use the term "sprints" on his teams at Google because it's insensitive language. Because not everyone is able to run fast. https://x.com/anothercohen/status/17295...Read more
Can someone from @amazon shed some light on how sprint planning works at Amazon? Is it ran by TPM or by SDMs? How are tasks scoped for size? I am curious how much it differs from my current company. TC: 250 + bananas #amazon #sprint
Hi guys, Since every companies has a different agile sprint process I wanted to get your opinions on what are the best practices on the process of sprint. In the past, I was in a team where requirements and tasks are constantly changing during the sprints which made me and other developers hard to...Read more
There’s a teammate who recently got promoted to sde2. The thing with him is that he works a lot. By a lot I mean works 12hours a day and even on weekends. Has not taken a single day off since the last 6months and is always working. He produces good quality work, no can complain about that but becaus...Read more
I’m joining @meta soon as E5 MLE. I’m curious what are expectations from E5 engineers at meta? Do you guys have grooming sessions and decide on tickets for the sprint to work on? Or each person works on what they like? Does your manager tell you what to work on? #engineering #software #swe TC 560k
FYI we are hiring! Ever since I joined Amazon, I noticed that my manager, skip level manager and other co-workers appreciate and celebrate someone who works until midnight or 3AM or works on weekends to fix an issue or even launch a new feature. Such guys are recognised during sprint retrospection...Read more
The team has lots of deliverables. Although the leadership always says not to overwork. Given the sprint works we have, it's hard not to overwork. I'm feeling very burnt out and lacking real motivation to keep working. I should have done LC and GTFO long ago. But I missed that train. Now things lik...Read more
Hi, I joined IBM last year as a new grad SWE. I interned in the same team for 2 semesters prior to joining as full timer. My team is not one of the dead team at ibm and does tons of great work. I never had a conversation with my manager about how promotion works from band 6 to band 7. I have this o...Read more
What a dumpster fire. I'm out. Leadership keep repeating "doing the right thing" in hr videos. But it is anything but in P&T engineering. Bunch of clowns praising each other for the shitty work that doesn't accomplish anything. Hey look we achieved 150% capacity in our sprint!! Congrats us!! But go...Read more
I'm a seasoned Amazonian, currently a bit demotivated about the nature work I'm doing. Most of the technical challenges are already solved, all we end up designing is integrating bunch of AWS services and done. I'm looking for better technical challenges and Ph.D is one of the ways. Does any of the...Read more
Hi, Joined Amazon recently. But not liking it. So going to jump off this ASAP. Currently, L5 MLE/SDE, TC 330k. Does any one has insights on how is day to day life for Staff MLE at Spotify or Sr MLE at twitter. Do they have daily stand ups, sprints, on calls etc? Spotify: TC: 315k. Twitter: TC: ...Read more
Got tired of shit WLB at Amazon India. Crazy pressure to make unrealistic commitments, and then chasing you for why did we miss dates. No sprint planning. Everyone works their ass off. So even if you put some extra hours, or on weekends, it might not be seen as extra. My total YOE is 1 year at A...Read more
I have interviewed and got couple of offers in April and selected Amazon finally. Since I started interviewing I haven’t been accomplishing anything at my work I am just coasting. My manager gives me lot of freedom and I think I am using it as an advantage since April. This is making me feel low eve...Read more
I am facing a challenge to deliver within timeline . I almost ended up writing a whole component to be deployed in production . The component works well in QA stages but am fixing alongside the PR review comments but my manager is like we need to ship the code as per deadline . I am totally not con...Read more
Why is this the rule of thumb for how long someone is expected to stay? Feel like the duration of learning how a company works and going through some number of projects is entirely dependent on the role and company size. On a broad conceptual level, I've found that teams take about two to three mont...Read more
We have this product manager who is essentially a mouthpiece for business. He doesn’t create stories. He doesn’t gather any requirements. He doesn’t really understand how the product works. The team is fine doing all these things themselves. But what’s irritating is that he appears once in a while ...Read more
Going into my second year. Informal feedback has been good. Supported a more senior developer on new services. Most tickets get completed within the sprint. And I’ve gotten better at grooming tickets before development. I think one area I’d like to get better at are system design and more in-depth ...Read more
Curious what other devs and QA people think about QA in the industry. Been in QA for 8 years and the last three have been all doing automation testing. Every team / company ive been on see it as important but not really essential to a scrum team and their norms. Also have had comments before in spri...Read more
I have been at my company for a few months, my wife works full time, and we have a young child who was in full time preschool until it closed. Life is stressful and chaotic for us at the moment. My company is saying all the right things about the company being flexible with work hours and expectati...Read more
How does your company/teams handle code reviews? 1. Do you always checkout every branch and manually test that it looks right/works right/has no blatant regressions (assuming you also have automated tests in place, with decent but not perfect coverage) 2. Do you only review the diff and its code ...Read more