Am I the only one who has had a garbage onboarding at AWS. Its been 3 days and my “onboarding buddy” has been unable to meet because she has a “sore throat”. My manager shows up 10 mins late for onboarding meeting and I only had a less than half hour with him before he had to unexpectedly leave early. Besides that its just been me going through embark. 0 human contact besides a 25 minute call and me sitting through standup. I’ve asked a couple of questions to my manager and he always takes 2-3 hours to respond if he responds at all that day. Idk I’m just moving to a new city and i’m just blown away we don’t even get to meet teammates in my first few days? Is this normal at big tech? Or is this just part of the big beautiful banana factory? New grad SWE - 180k
it's just amazon
Amazon is shit After 6 months they will ask what is your impact 😂
This is not even a joke. Reaching 6 months, about to get pipped.
It’s not 6 months, managers get a performance survey after 90 days.
They're setting you up for PIP
Strongly agree. PIP candidate
It might just be an issue with your specific manager or onboarding buddy. My brother joined recently and his experience has been very smooth, his manager very involved and the process has been quite structured. He had joined without high expectations - but he was pleasantly surprised. Of course the real work culture will be known only once he works there for a while. But at least the onboarding process has been very good.
That was my experience as well, last fall.
You'll soon learn why I'll never work there
- A man who doesn’t LC
lol Indeed with the 🥜 TC and non existent prestige.
Depends entirely on manager/org and is different everywhere. Your scenario is just like my onboarding at Oracle which didn’t exist. I still don’t know how to take PTO and my benefits have been fucked up beyond belief for more than a month. My manager isn’t reachable and I was thrown into multiple large assignments on my 2nd day and have not yet received any training on anything. So it sounds like this could be the big tech norm?
Amazon onboarding is garbage. May be you are Hire to Fire.
Do you have any tips to make it easier to onboard?
If you're feeling like the structure or support isn't there, you could start owning your own onboarding experience. Set up calls, ask a million questions, ping someone if they're running late and set up more time with them if needed. Onboarding is often what you make it, not necessarily what others make for you.
Now this is Bias for Action
you are right. im onboarding at my first real tech company and i could literally sit here and play xbox and drink for a few weeks, but I have to beg people for the information needed for success. My bosses are impressed with my "can do" attitude
Zoom puts you off to the side for four weeks before giving you any work.
4 weeks is a little too much. Maybe hire better engineers?
Managers too.
amzn or meta 2 of the lowest Wonder what's in common 🤔