Two notorious employers known for bad WLB. Who’s worse?
I think that only people who’ve worked for both should answer
I can handle a lot more stress if there's delicious free food available everywhere all the time, like Facebook has.
But then you you’ll be broke, dumb and fat
The combination of stress and free food sounds horrifying to me since I tend to overeat when stressed.
Fb has and promotes wlb. Amazon doesn't have wlb, they have the "circle"
the ‘circlejerk’
Can’t speak to FB as I haven’t worked there. At Amazon, stress and poor WLB usually comes from factors well outside of your control: VP escalations and other top-down mandates, weak SDMs and senior SDEs who don’t push back against scope creep, ops fires (which may only indirectly involve your product/system via a dependency; you just get caught in the blast radius at 2 am), shitty tooling, and a lot of mandatory process overhead that takes time away from the business impact you’re ultimately measured against (e.g. drafting CMs and COEs, code freezes, etc). Plus, this company has adopted a bit more of a hire-fast, fire-fast model, so it hires a lot of people who simply aren’t that good to begin with and drive themselves into the ground trying to keep up with the chaos. It is team dependent to a great extent--I've been here 4+ years with generally good WLB most of the time. I have been caught up in VP escalations, however, and those are awful. Nothing you can do if one of them comes down on you.
Been at Amazon for 4 months and it's not been bad except for the week of oncall . That's the worst week if your team gets sev 2s regularly. My team isn't too bad but I still get paged once or twice during the oncall week. I wonder if there is a concept of oncall for engineers at FB?
How has been the orientation and getting used to processes and product ? If you can answer , which group in amazon do you work for ?
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So team dependent