What would be the experience required for L6 and for L7? Are SDMs at Amazon hands-on?
Amazon SDM is glorified assistant to L7s and if you are lucky to L8s. Large majority of your time you spend in accounting, book keeping, apologizing, and writing stupid docs with no real purpose. Yes they’re hands on everything except tech. Real example: one of the SDM was appointed to schedule meetings, bring food, setup av, etc by an L7
Haha I was hoping to see this!!
Huh, SDM can be a great role, depends on your org and manager of course. L6 comp is tree fiddy as they say.
😮 and which orgs are good?
Which orgs are good? In what respect? Good leadership? That probably for guys like you to define... Challenging projects? Almost all orgs have challenging projects... Startup culture? All teams at some level do operate as a startup... Less politics? Almost all orgs have some aspect of politics... I am not sure what “good” means in your question! L7 managers are supposed to define “good” for the org
Not hands on. But like to interfere
What do you mean? What team are you on?
Just saying some manager write 0 lines of code, does 0 code review, but keep telling how to hack stuff around.