Long rant
I am working from India, as a away team to couple of team (one in Seattle, other in Phoenix) and I need to spend almost every night (4 out of 5) work with the US team. If I am not replying to CR comments or implementing commented changes, then I would be creating MCM for deployment. On top of that my TPM promoted, non SDE manager has to idea regarding technical difficulties and is a sticker for deadlines. If I can work 4 days at night, why can't US teams work for 2 days and I would work for other 2. I even brought this issue up to my manager, and she said it can't be done. I mean she didn't even try. And one night, I don't reply to other SDEs chime message my manager calls me in next morning and gives me an earful. The conversation went something like this: Manager: You were not available last night. (Or something along those lines) Me: Yes, I was using my personal laptop and forgot to check my work laptop. Manager: Why can't you use work laptop all the time. Me: Sorry, will do it next time. Inner me: Because if I keep thousands of pirated movies and TV shows, I am pretty sure I will get a call from Infosec. I understand that posting it here, won't do any good. But, I really wanted to put it somewhere and couldn't find a better platform. TC 18 Lakhs
Get an internal transfer, become the host team for your manager. And ping her at midnight.
Haha. That's evil
Long con. On a serious note, engineers have far better life in Seattle.
The manager is treating you poorly because you are in India. There is a bad habit of feeling like it’s ok to burn out India staff because they think they are easily replaceable. It’s gross behavior and I hate it, but I’ve seen it a lot. I don’t know if you have any leverage but I’d tell the manager that you’re going to adjust your own hours to make the work situation on your team more equitable and immediately look for a new job.
I am a new grad and only been at Amazon for 6 months. So yeah, I don't have any leverage
I am not sure this seems to be more of a case of bad manager. While I was in ms idc, I was never expected to reply to emails ( unless I was on call ) after I left for home . I can remember attending late night meetings only a handful number of times. 9AM was the most common time for setting up any meeting with US folks.
Mandatory TC?
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Bear with it while you find a better team/company to work at