Boring roadmap at FAANG?

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i_confused

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i_confused
Feb 2 14 Comments

New engineer at Amazon here. I expected my team to work on groundbreaking features, but all I see on my team’s roadmap are one or two new features and a bunch of campaigns, security, internal migrations etc. Seems like the move fast and break things adage is a lie.

Is it like this at other FAANGMULA+ companies too? If I want to work on new features should I jump to a smaller company?

TC: 165k CAD
YOE: 1

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  • That’s Meta’s motto not Amazon’s
    Feb 2 4
    • Amazon
      i_confused

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      i_confused
      OP
      Curious, how does that imply groundbreaking?
      Feb 2
    • Every product has a novel and reused portion.

      Echo is a combination of speech/text recognition, ML, and traditional plugin architecture.

      AWS uses containerd and other open source libraries.

      It’s how existing technologies are meshed together to form a new market that’s exciting to me.
      Feb 2
  • I feel it’s like this at most places. It’s hard to get into a good team with impactful and interesting work
    Feb 2 1
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      i_confused

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      i_confused
      OP
      To clarify, I’ve learned a lot on my team and love the team in general, but I feel like there’s too much admin work compared to working on new features. I’m also working on a newish product in an old team so I feel we should be moving faster 🤷🏽‍♂️
      Feb 2
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    jwED33

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    jwED33
    It’s such a massive company. Not everyone can be working on the most exciting and groundbreaking work. There’s still a lot of legacy stuff that has to be maintained
    Feb 2 0
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    niyruuu

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    niyruuu
    Is this not cause amazon doesn’t have dedicated dev ops or sre that focus on those for the team and sde have to do 2 jobs
    Feb 2 2
  • New
    beichebwks

    New

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    Lol
    beichebwks
    Amazons motto is “panic and patch software”
    Feb 2 0