One of our senior engineer made a change into my feature that I warned him against. He didn’t listen and shut me down! He pushed the change to satisfy his ego! Now it blew up production. It’s been two months that he’s trying to put bandaids on his change. It is still not fixing it. He tried to make a scene of saying to everyone that the change he made to fix the issues that I left in the feature. He’s powerful, influential and political. It’s hard to address it being a junior engineer. Today my manager called me out that because of my feature they have lost customers and then she quickly went off the call! I wasn’t given a chance to explain myself. This issue has become a big deal. It has gotten escalated to partner’s level. Consequently, I am also recently removed from a project that my manager promised me! I am not sure how to handle this senior guy and my manager! My mental health is affected. I worked so hard for my promotion but this senior guy(God knows) why he hates me so much wrote bad perspective for me that my manager added in my connect too! Level: L61 TC: 180K
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So this senior. When did he leave Amazon to join MS?
He’s always in MS
JK. I was trying to cheer you up.
Timing fits the networking issue ? 🤣
Sorry I didn’t understand
MS services was down for a while and made big news like a week ago. Big outage
Been in your situation. They need a scapegoat. It might be you. I would recommend move internally. Also is this Webxt ?
Haha, WebXt!
I love how your brain immediately went towards WebXT LOL This org is hell!!!
I wouldn’t have this much reaction even if my husband betrayed me..
You’re strong! I wish I am like you!
It’s life. You learn to deal with shit.
Probably you warned him verbally. Next time, do that in code review comment for the history
My manager asked me to review his PR, I told her I am not sure about this change. I gave it in writing to her. She forgets everything.
Send the receipts to your manager. Wasn't a post-mortem done to have uncovered the senior screwed up? Honestly if you are on a team where your manager isn't willing to listen to you, it is the tell tale sign you need to look for another team.
Document as much as you can, PR comments, comments on the docs, timeline of events and set up a call with your manager and discuss the events, don't complain against him but explain the situation.
👆🏼This. Don’t give in to the pressure. If you know you haven’t done anything wrong, hold your ground. Stay strong.
If manager doesn't listen, go to your skip.
Learn. In any company, you will have 1 or 2 assholes in the team so better learn to deal with them. Version control can show who made the change, no? Show metrics before and after. Or see if you could revert the change?
How do you deal with such people though? It’s also important to have some support or someone to listen to in such cases. If the manager herself is not ready to listen then having a version control can’t help much. Sometimes managers also want an easy way out and will listen to what seniors on the team say.
If you talk to the team or just casually observe, it is easy to identify the helpfuls and assholes. Once identified, be extremely careful with dealing with assholes. Avoid cross as far as possible and when not possible, keep written records like comment on diff, docs, emails etc. Once you build enough trust with the team, manager and skip, you could relax a little bit but I wouldn't let my guard down when dealing with the assholes. This person is most likely toast though if there are no written records or manager is unwilling to listen completely
Sounds awful. I know it's not what you want to hear but I'd prepare to work elsewhere. The fact is, accountability is not a leadership principle. I have a lot of respect for Amazonians but there's a lot of bs. Its out of your control.
If you are absolutely sure it was their fault and not yours, I'd write a proper email to all parties concerned with all the information from start to end and let them judge for themselves with all the facts. It either helps you or tells you that your time at the company is up and need to find a new job.
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