I’ve been at Amazon as an L6 engineer for 3 years. Around 1.5 years ago I started mentoring some members on a sister team and that grew into me “leading” several projects across 3 teams. I do almost nothing. I jump in stand ups, answer a few random questions about Amazon’s internal stuff, and nearly nothing else. This has been going on for around 12 months now. I own no projects directly, I haven’t made a cr in months. I do 1 hour of stand up (join all 3) and a couple 1:1’s here and there, do quarterly planning and retro and nothing else. Just sit and play video games on my personal PC so I’m there to make my slack look active. Tc $350k
Sounds like staff to me
Lmao actually though, sounds like influencing across the org and lending guidance and advice. Promo inbound. He woulda been piped already if they wanted him out lmao
Getting primed for Pip. Enjoy while it lasts.
I know who you are and I heard you are in focus.
TC? What was your Forte rating? Ask for promotion or a dive&save! Those dive&save offers require more customers! Amazon can't afford to lose more hardworking people like yourself!
Have your escape plan ready for any reorg.
Isn't that what managers are supposed to do in tech?
Don't you have a manager? Do they ask any questions, have any 1:1s, or give any tasks? We have an L7 IC (Principal SDE) who doesn't do any CRs at all, doesn't even review any, has no webpage or office hours, he's always on vacation (calendar invitations for which are the only emails I ever see from him), doesn't even show up to team-wide meetings anymore since a year ago, and I really have no idea what he even does or ever did. I originally thought he was in PIP because he used to be far more active and would show face in most meetings (and also be the most clueless person whenever he was oncall), but it's been like that for over a year now, and he still keeps sending OOO invitations every few weeks, so, he can't be on an extended LOA, either.
Trying to understand the motivation behind this post. Looks like OP is feeling guilty and anxious if they actually get called into a serious sev2 or design discussion. This post looks like OPs subconcious way of looking for some validation. OP it is ok to chill out. I will do the same. However make sure to spend at least 2 to 3 hours everyday catering to your skills by reading stuff.
envy you
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