Most Depressing Company Channel on Blind?

Amazon / Eng
gldnhndcfs

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gldnhndcfs
Jun 10, 2018 131 Comments

Reading the Amazon channel is depressing. Lots of horror stories about WLB and PIP’s and so forth.

Legitimately curious. Is it just the nature of Blind? Is Amazon just a depressing company? Any other companies with depressing channels, or even any happy company channels out there?

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TOP 131 Comments
  • Microsoft
    MrHyde🤖🤖

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    MrHyde🤖🤖
    Microsoft is full of low TC threads
    Jun 10, 2018 2
    • Amazon / Eng
      gldnhndcfs

      Go to company page Amazon Eng

      gldnhndcfs
      OP
      Are there a lot of posts about bad WLB or culture? And I’d rather meh TC and good WLB tbh :p
      Jun 10, 2018
    • There are a lot of posts about how companies with higher pay have bad WLB :p. Culture is a little different...some groups are really toxic. Lots of dev vs. pm friction.

      But seriously comp is the number one topic by far.
      Jun 10, 2018
  • Amazon / Eng
    RCMMT

    Go to company page Amazon Eng

    RCMMT
    A lot of Amazon ones are about which teams are good and which suck. My personal favorite is SHITSHOW ORG POWER RANKINGS. It's got a list of like 20 teams tiered by how shitty they are in classic blind fassion. Lol
    Jun 10, 2018 12
    • Microsoft / Eng
      fawlty

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      fawlty
      What does the wiki team do ? Don't tell me Amazon has a separate team to maintain internal wikis.
      Jun 12, 2018
    • Amazon / Eng
      RCMMT

      Go to company page Amazon Eng

      RCMMT
      They didn't like the open source php wiki because of php security so they are trying to migrate it to a Java based one but the new one BLOWS!

      They were trying to force the migration before it was ready causing tons of ops dashboards and stuff to break.

      Fortunately, some godly engineer brought it up in an ops megathread and a distinguished engineer pushed the whole migration back like a year.

      Amazon engineering in a nutshell. Lol
      Jun 12, 2018
  • Facebook
    NotaTroll!

    Go to company page Facebook

    NotaTroll!
    FB blind isn't very negative and is surprisingly supportive. But there are a couple of ballsless conservatives complaining about diversity here and there.
    Jun 10, 2018 5
    • ^ found someone that values their political agenda over reality, but that's absurdly easy to do in the Bay Area. You've really got to look hard to find people that don't.
      Jun 11, 2018
    • New
      m5sa

      New

      m5sa
      "we really value diversity, unless it isn't in the buckets that we like. Then it is horrible."
      Jun 19, 2021
  • Uber
    lLjv00

    Go to company page Uber

    lLjv00
    Uber’s channel is mostly about how to make the company and our product better, and anger towards past mistakes. I’ve seen one or two PIP threads as well but not super common.
    Jun 10, 2018 3
  • Oracle
    HKF045zh

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    HKF045zh
    Oracle beats them all. There’s OCI and the rest of us.
    Jun 10, 2018 7
    • Oracle
      Carnival

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      Carnival
      Speak for yourself @HKF045zh. I am in DB and get compensated at par with most of my friends in FB/G/Apple. We have intelligent, smart people who are very respected in the DB community. We do challenging projects and it is fun to work here 80% of the time. Of course, the lack of stock appreciation, big legacy company culture, etc. means that 20% of the time I feel "What if I joined X,Y or Z?", but for the most part my team is a good place to work for at Oracle.
      Jun 10, 2018
    • Oracle
      BSJr60

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      BSJr60
      Well Oracle is known for DB so hopefully they treat you guys nice or else wtf is Oracle doing.
      Jun 10, 2018