It's getting insane. So many things are in parallel and it is being run with less resources in team which leads to minimum 10-12 hours a day. I work on weekends too! Ops and on-call is pretty brutal. Being straight is one thing, people are straight up rude at Amazon while giving input and asking for help is frowned upon! The bar maybe lower but systems are so complex in AWS, specially data plane! It is impossible to get to know system, it is not typical CRUD system. Manager assigns tasks and expects to complete task on data plane within half sprint, testing data Plane itself takes half sprint with amount of complexity! I cannot sleep well at night, the stress is pretty insane to deliver stuff! I took couple of days off but that didn't helped me. I am constantly under stress now, I have started to talk rudely with my family because of it. Manager lies about promo to the face, I know it's not happening but he lies without blinking his eye, the talent is unreal! I am going to try to take bigger vacation now to see if that helps! RDS org L5 SDE Seattle 230K TC Don't join Amazon but if you do, don't join AWS, if you do, don't ever join RDS/analytics. If you join RDS or any database/analytics org after reading the post, I will feel nothing but sorry for you!
What if I join AWS -> RDS/analytics without reading the post? Will you feel sorry for me? 😢
From Uber? You must be kidding me.
LC and interview. If you don’t have time to LC, switch teams
DB orgs are shitshow even in Europe. Leaving Aurora dumpster in several weeks.
Ohh man that beautiful product Aurora! My colleague transferred from Aurora, he mentioned there used to be 1 hour standups lol All databases orgs compete with each other to take the worse life for SDE crown
How long have you been in AWS?
It cooks crap
Are you a dev or are you an analyst/BIE?
SDE
Man, that’s tough to hear. From the outside looking in, it’s hard to bridge your account (which I do believe) with the actual product - RDS is a rock solid offering and much better than its direct competitors imo. How is it that despite the chaos there’s still a great outcome for customers?
Is RDS chaos for everyone (designers, PMs, etc) or mostly for engineers?
Don't know about others but for engineers, the org is brutal
frowned upon? is that what LP teaches u?
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Org? Location? Title? Level? TC? Visa status? Give me the inputs and I will tell you what to do.
RDS org L5 Seattle 230K TC H1B visa
Thanks god i dodged the bullet