How’s Amazon AWS Frontend Engineer work life balance?

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mike-hncho

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Apr 13 14 Comments

How’s the work life balance for AWS Frontend Engineer? Also, the Outpost team im interviewing for requires on call for one week a month. How does on call work for Frontend? #Amazon #aws #frontend #engineering #software #swe

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  • You get called to center a div at least once a week
    Apr 13 1
  • Amazon / Eng
    leetnope

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    Staff frontend engineer 320k TC 10 yoe
    leetnope
    Do you expect the same pay as an SDE? If yes, then prolly good to expect the same responsibilities.
    Apr 13 3
    • Amazon / Eng
      leetnope

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      Staff frontend engineer 320k TC 10 yoe
      leetnope
      Not sure about that SDM, but my team has L4, L5 and L6 FEEs and SDEs and everyone L5 and above is part of the rotation. The operational burden is shared equally by everyone. This means managing the frontend app (obviously) and also the backend stack - primarily a middleware service that's not too complex, and a bunch of jobs for parsing and transforming metrics data).
      Apr 13
    • Ellucian
      mike-hncho

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      OP
      Great insight, thank you for taking the time to share that!
      Apr 13
  • Amazon
    qNlr02

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    qNlr02
    Classic problem. I am an SDM and have FEEs in my team, have so far kept them out of on call and expect to do so. If it is front end related issue, I have it as a daytime request to them. Pisses the rest of the SDEs off that they aren’t part of the oncall, but I guess this is my way of solving.
    Apr 13 1
    • Ellucian
      mike-hncho

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      OP
      Good to know, and thanks for letting me know your process. I think this is an area of confusion may front end devs have and this will probably clear things up for a lot of people.
      Apr 13
  • Shippo
    xerocks

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    xerocks
    Interesting when someone asks about WLB at Amazon
    Apr 13 3
  • New
    TlDO81

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    TlDO81
    Interested in learning more about this as well
    Apr 13 1