Average tenure in IT is probably like 2 years. What you believe for your career, Sprint or Marathon? Sprint, change companies frequently and get best salaries. Marathon, stay and ensure promotion happens with average tenure. just stick for long.
Wondering what carrier offers the best total comp for retail management positions. I’ve been with T-Mobile for almost 10 years and make 90k a year but promotions seem to have become stagnant in my area since the merger with sprint was announced. How is it over at Att and Verizon?
Starting as a SWE1 this coming summer (not at lowes). At Lowe’s (my only internship), the way it worked was that everyone just did their tickets for the 2 week sprint and that was it. My question is, if everyone is just doing their tickets, how do I stand out/prepare a promotion packet for SWE2? ...Read more
This time last year I was frustrated with my team mates, manager, and the work bottle neck, as well as critiquing myself harshly when I was on top of work and getting promotions and setting up work shops for junior interns who we later laid off Today, I'm 6 weeks behind my sprint, I ignored client ...Read more
While other places may pip you but everyone is given an opportunity to course correct and firing you is not a goal for manager's promotion. At Amazon L7 celebrate when you give up & can't take it anymore. They'll keep on extending focus (pre-pip) indefinitely for whatever reasons even if you deliver...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
My manager wants me to talk about career progression in 1:1. While this seems good, it’s not. I am in a team where I am struggling to make ends meet. My team is understaffed with budget cuts and all penny saving scheme are in place. Also its full of production incidents, very heavy on-call, randomiz...Read more
I’m tired of planning for the entire quarter in a week alongside deliveries. Apart from that, the org decided that they want to club multiple PIs into one big 10 sprint PI, so as to increase capacity to 10 from 8(oh wow, so smart, let’s give promotion to the one who suggested doing this) Now I’m stu...Read more
Hey future hiring EM. I have 11 yoe. I'm burnt the fuck out from the people bullshit. I'm done leading teams, managing devs and turning nothing into something. I want grunt IC work where I can finish the entire sprint on Monday and be lazy the remainder of the week. I don't want promotions or more T...Read more
I am a low performer. I have been always. For the last 8 years. I got almost pipd in amazon, my first company. Got fired in a startup, the second one. And now I am working as an avg/below avg at Uber. I have seen only one promotion in my life. I want to change this. And I am ready to do anything (...Read more
I joined Oracle recently and my manager assigns extra tasks that was not mentioned in the sprint planning. This task doesn't even have a story, it is just email or some slack message type of thing. I made a mistake in one of my 1vs1s, I mentioned about aiming for promotion and stuff. I didn't w...Read more
I have manager who is very in secure , he takes all our work and go to leadership and shows he did it . He hide things and we are just a slides making guy for him . Promotion he always abuse and make you feel you don’t even should have current position . Very insecure and he just want to promote and...Read more
I am seeing a dangerous trend that Indian female engineers are trying to excessively push for career growth and ready to sacrifice family and health over career growth. I know very closely an engineer (I mentor) in Amazon with spouse in Snowflake. She had a complex pregnancy but she continued to pu...Read more
Our team has "Retrospective" after each sprint and we fill up details about how the past sprint went, recognitions, things that went wrong, improvements, etc. Our team use to have a lot of details there with many no. of recognition but it's been going down pretty much for the last 3/4 sprints. My m...Read more
Tired of job hopping and want to settle, but can't find a place where I want to.. Is there a company that fits my criteria for frontend/ux engineers? Must haves: - Work closely with product/UX. Engineers participate in user studies, have easy access to user metrics, and decisions are made through a...Read more
Would it be a bad idea to discuss with my manager about a promotion or applying internally? Would they let me get out of the new grad program? I started early July in the new grad analyst program but I quickly made it through onboarding and training and am now just another SWE on my team like every...Read more
There is a lot of unclarity with respect to goals in the team. No one seems to know anything about the project and I find myself stumbling in the dark many times. There is not a lot of coding, but my team leads(are new) seem to over-engineer and find unnecessary problems in my code reviews, code tha...Read more
My manager asked to help another team for interviewing. That team manager assigns me one to two people every week. I have been interviewing people two to three levels above me. (I think there is no one else for this specialization to interview people.) It takes a lot of effort to write detailed fee...Read more
I am IC 3 who joined half a year back at Apple. Best to my knowledge, all other engineers on my team are IC5 and above. They are included in most important meetings, get visibility to upper management and I work on scraps. I try to get involved into more design stages and 'upper level talk' but I la...Read more
Recently transitioned from data analytics (7 YOE) to software engineering (0 YOE). Brand new to software engineering so looking to get mentorship and start with a good foundation while having decent WLB. Need help deciding between offers: Amazon Backend SDE-I (L4) - Team: AWS Honeycode (No code / ...Read more