Do you people find this ownership thing bullshit at Amazon? Like pushing for tasks getting included in sprint planning for the project you ‘own’. And then if you weren’t able to push hard your manager tells you that you didn’t do a good job. I am an SDE FFS not a project manager. You tell me what you need and I’ll build it for you. How are things at other companies especially that are more engineering oriented?
Meh. Just stop caring. Coast. 🫡
Yeah, that’s why the compensation isn’t that great at Amazon in term of hour works and responsibility. Prior I got paid about 70% but the company had clear responsibility. I was just worried about coding. They even had DevOp, QA that we could use. When I move to Amazon, it’s all on the shoulder of engineers. I guess I got to learn a lot but I feel I code less as an engineer even though I work longer hours to do stupid stuffs like ops, QA, writing work back plan, even promo docs.
I don't think it is bullshit at all. It forces you to think about the context your software lives in and to fight for what you think is right. The worst coders I have seen are the ones who want to be in a only code box and are unwilling/despise doing other things related to their code. Like you want to be told what to do? That isn't ownership. It sure as heck isn't bias for action. And it definitely isn't customer obsession. That attitude would get you PIPd in record time in our org. It is okay to only want to be in the only code box but even the guys I know like that who are great know they need to engage in everything else to be great.
Exactly why Amazon sucks. Thanks for explaining.
Exactly why Amazon sucks for single threaded low performers.
Explains what Mark does
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