A new high for toxicity in Amazon
A coworker of mine, freshly graduated from UC, has been working on my team for 8 months or so. He’s not talented but he tried hard with the speed that Amazon moves. Recently, he made a mistake in deployment which caused a COE. He just told me today that the manager put him on focus. I was shock! It’s not a big deal. Just a small mistake which could have made by anyone. Why the culture is this toxic? I’m amazed.
Not surprised this happened in Amazon. Any mistakes you made can be used to against you.
Well duh, you need to be right a lot to work here man
Must be shitty manager. Same happened with me they pip me when pipeline build was failing even though work was completed on time. Just excuses really.
Management in Amazon makes no mistake because they don’t do anything at all.
One such error will not make anyone put into focus. Their manager should have been working for weeks to add your friend into focus. As SDE friend of mine was one of the folks who had brought down the website. They are still at Amazon and got promoted multiple times.
I'm probably doxxing myself, but a mistake I made as an sde1 got reported in techcrunch. And one other time, your orders page went down due to a misconfig. This was 5+ years ago Mistakes don't put you on focus, not learning from them surely will. Also, if you are constantly innovating chances are you will break things. So no he isn't on focus because he caused a coe.
>he's not talented Maybe that's something he could work on
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Another banger. Well done, Blind.
A coworker told me that any mistake will be used against you at Amazon, even those you didn’t make🤣. You coworkers mistake is joining Amazon.
URA enforcement is brutal this year. Literally a jungle here. Never show weakness in the wilderness.
What’s COE?
Seems like Amazon for “postmortem.” I’m confused why OP didn’t just say that they caused an incident/outage.
Yeah its postmortem. I used it so much that it became second nature now lol
Simple rule in Amazon, if you are not useful you are fired 🔥
Because most management for L6 upwards are not great technically, hence why they went mgmt.