Amazon, how open is your company internally?
Inside FB it's pretty open -- with very few exceptions, all employees can go into any building / bring guests wherever / see what any other employee is working on. Talking to a friend at Amzn it seems like there's a lot of internal division, is that true?
Not sure if this answers your question but One time I was in an onsite interview. The meeting room that was blocked for me was access controlled. I went out between the interviews for a break. When I returned none of the employees sitting near the meeting room could badge me in. I had to wait several minutes for the HR to badge me in.
Even some interviewers didn't have access and I had to open the door from inside.
That’s sad
There are quite a few restricted buildings is my understanding (executives, FCs, data centers, etc.) but during most business hours you can access (or quickly get access) to most buildings.
Okay, that makes sense. What about informational access? Obviously not user data, but I mean, source code / hardware design specs / planning documents? If you wanted to know how random feature X was implemented, would your access limit you from finding out?
I’m not an engineer and can’t speak to SC, but internal wiki seems to have a large amount of technical documentation about core services and functions. There are document sharing servers also of course with finance/planning/etc. documents. Confidential stuff is of course secured. Finally, if I wanted to know how something was implemented I could probably get a very technical internal explanation. Teams take pride is explaining their work.
I’ve never had issues with my badge at any entry point
If you are based in Seattle, you’ll have access to most buildings. Certain buildings and floors are restricted though.
Any interesting examples of what gets a whole floor locked down?
Devices, marketing, government AWS stacks
I think its pretty open. As an eng i can see team wikis from just about any team that is not secret (almost all of them). So if I wanted to and had the time to, I can pretty much learn to excruciating levels of detail how 90 - 95% of this giant company works.
We have floorplan of all the buildings, except Day1 6th, where Jeff is sitting.
I used to work for a company that was an Amazon vendor. During manufacturing, you would be in a room far away from the floor and you only get to see the part of Kindle which was your part.
Badge only works in the building I work in. I generally go to another building for interviews and I have to cut a ticket everytime, then they ask for a POC in the building who can confirm that I am coming there for interviews. Once I forgot to cut a ticket. The security didn't let me in, even after the recruiter came outside to the reception and begged them to allow me in as I was late for the interview. They made me cut a ticket while I was standing at the reception and then the security guy had the balls to say that we'd need to wait for another 15-20 mins as the approval comes from Seattle ( I work in bay area)
That’s insane. Maybe there’s a lot of secret projects going on in those buildings. My word...
May be. Funny thing is that just 2 months ago, I used to work in that building.
Not open at all, everything is kept under wraps. A lot of floors are restricted in certain buildings and during all hands they don't tell you anything the public doesn't already know.
Lol. Good luck trying to get your badge to work on half of the readers
:o Can you elaborate? Where would you expect / not expect it to work?