Uber CEO sent an email to all employees tonight, according to CNBC. Here are the relevant parts: 5. Meeting the moment means making trade-offs. The hurdle rate for our investments has gotten higher, and that means that some initiatives that require substantial capital will be slowed. We have to mak...Read more
Those of you who remain at large tech companies that had sudden recent layoffs where even the managers didn’t know until the day of so couldn’t plan ahead, who is doing the work? Completing underway code during the sprint, emailing customers who were mid-email-conversation, doing a sales demo, send...Read more
I can do technical stuff fine, like fixing bugs writing code. As long as work flows down to me, I get tickets on a sprint. Pretty straightforward. I can deliver But at Amazon, what else would I supposed to be doing? Am I going to get random emails about req, designing apps/services from scratch, wr...Read more
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I am in this trade-off between having good Google FI coverage (Sprint+tmobile) and having good Android software updates. Prioritizing FI coverage: Pixel phones work perfectly with FI, but I'm incredibly upset with its limited lifetime in Android updates. I was quite shocked when IT told me I no lon...Read more
Assume 10 days / sprint. 2 points per day. So at max, a developer can do 20 points / sprint. But there are other random stuff. Meetings, email, unknown issue fix, code reviews, KTs. Given all that, what is a reasonable amount of point a developer can plan for. This is highly dependent on the tea...Read more
Provided them documents on December 8, 2021. They still haven't filed the H-1B petition. They don't even look determined to file it soon looking at their slow/delayed email responses. Fragomen is so lazy and slow. They need agile two weeks sprints with daily scrums. #h1b #workvisa
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
Edit : I'm at FAANG fte. Thanks for the concern guys.. I am indian. my manager's indian. Most of my team is diverse. I joined recently along with 3 other indian teammates. We were never welcomed. No emails welcoming us. No one reached out to us to welcome or get to know us. I personally sent emai...Read more
Lets be real here, a good TPM is a rarity. I will say that probably 99% TPM roles in the industry are simply email pushers, report generators and sprint meeting conductors. They can be replaced via good iterative LLM workflows. At Amazon, TPMs eventually become SDMs which leads to lowering of the ...Read more
So I’m delivering all my tasks in focus on time manager thinks differently, on my weekly email paper trail I’m getting “coming to standup late” when I came like 2 minutes late two times and “not burning points” for sprints (this is like two times) so pretty sure he’s trying to pipe me. I’m doing lee...Read more
I know we all find it very helpful to have a pm pinging me about the status of tasks. Perhaps this bot could do it even more frequently and ping your manager if you don’t reply within 60 seconds 🙏 I hate when they look at the sprint board for updates instead 😡 This should free up a pm’s time to ...Read more
First, HW's waterfall cycle is super annoying. Everyone has the "throw it over the fence" mentality. There is too many teams you need to get together (including the ODMs) to meet the deadline so someone ends up getting shorted on their allotted time for a task. It's so messy. Also, feels like we are...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
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
Thought I would share my recent pip story from amazon 🍌 to raise awareness about this incredible company! 👀 I joined a few months ago as SDE 1, fresh grad 0 yoe to this large amazon team. Right of the bat manager tells me he does not expect me to deliver anything in 2-3 months. 😲 No problem, I t...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
1. SDEs who lie, don’t help others, take time from you and don’t give credit, make noise to show impact on every details. 2. Ambiguity and managing expectation in a project that needs understanding of other teams' services and do implementation there. Management asks for progress, ETA and needs to ...Read more
What is your choice? I used to be a micromanager before and my ‘micro’ management style helped three devs (over a period of 5 years) avoid pip. I used to work for a company where you could change teams just before you are placed on pip and managers nudged that option to avoid the headache of a pip....Read more
Senior IC - pat Me - Harry (same level as pat) Front end junior j Manager (belongs to same place of origin as harry and rad) Rad - junior j (who works on small tasks, same region of origin as manager) Pat is assigned to design a new feature. But after the initial design the project is shelved for 6...Read more