I am a decent programmer and I learn all new technologies pretty fast. One of the things which has harmed my career in couple of places is that I am not a very passive aggressive speaker. I don’t try to win every argument or trump it with my point of view. But many companies only value type A personality people who trump every meeting and steer all discussions to their point of view. Senior management considers them more valuable than others who listen to the team. What sort of place is Amazon? Is it one of the places where passive aggressive people with very dominating personality rule the roost? I am talking about SDE3 L6.
Type A personality can only succeed here. Stay away if you are introvert.
Yes. I had a post earlier (about a month ago) about why is amazon’s culture so argumentative
Depends on the team. If you use introvert as an excuse not to influence that’s not a good excuse. If you know how to influence and have resounding impact without being all up front in meetings, then you’ll do fine. It’s just a matter of knowing how to influence and lead. Not everyone does it aggressively.
No, it’s not a good place for you. It’s difficult to succeed at Amazon without a voice.
No. It’s a good place for hot as hell politics.
The world is not a good place for introverts.
If you’re right a lot it doesn’t matter. But you better be fucking right, and be able to assert it.
There are many a times when right and wrong isn’t black and white. In those cases the loudest voice wins, even if the other solution was equal or better
I think you’ll find in most companies, those that play politics the best end up on top. Amazon is no exception to that
Not at Apple
Amazon's culture is aggresive, so it is difficult for sure. However, I knew a couple of principals/senior principals at Amazon who I considered introverts and did not like to argue all the time, but they knew when to speak up and of course they were very smart.
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