The title says it all. I am a lowly L6 SDM who is struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of stupid busy work that Amazon makes us SDMs do in the frikkin name of ownership, bias for fucktion and dive deep.
I've been up since 7 am and will be working at least past midnight. And don't anyone tell me about delegating shit, this is sdm shit that I can't ask my reports to do. It's just bad planning and lack of empathy in my food chain and making it dump on us at the last minute.
I have kids and it hurts when they come and tell me that I am always on calls and working. My wife has started to really believe that I am a workaholic SOB who is cold hearted as fk and only cares about his sorry ass job.
Fwiw, I manage multiple teams of apparently pretty significant importance and have the L7 carrot being dangled in front of me. So this should put any perf concerns laid to rest, though I question at times the integrity of this whole situation and if the carrot is only to make me stay until the last ounce of work is extracted out of me.
I await my comp results and thanks to blind I'll know just how deep my turd is in this stinkhole.
I am seriously considering moving to another team just to have a saner life. To hell with promo. Life, kids and wife first. Immigration woes restrict me to Amazon, else meta would have been home many moons ago (you peeps are good, or at least seemed so in the loops).
And yes, I do need to now pip someone because my org needs to meet the quota and I wasn't ballsy enough to say no. ( No, I was told he's your LE, go deliver the message). Pip is indeed real.
Rant over.
Years at Amazon: 2 just too many
TC: not fucking worth it
Yoe: as old as yo mamma's boytoy
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Karma is a bitcch and so is amazon
Dig through these , find and address one at a time and voila!
It's stressful for the pip candidate no doubt. For SDM too but no where as same.
Fwiw, it will likely be for an EM position. I am going to try for senior EM, given that I manage multiple teams and have a org of 34ish devs. Are my expectations realistic ? Been a manager for 6+ years but only have <1 yr as M2.
The new LP is great but it will take a while for the company to embrace it. Till then it's the other LPs and toxicity being shoved.
And about posting on Blind...aren't we all here for some venting and finding company in our misery, with an occasional nugget of wisdom imparted?
Tech job is 9-5 in good old windows division, no where else.
sometimes, life makes you prioritize something else not out of choice 😞😢