A few years ago, I worked with this guy on the same team as contractors for a federal related company. He was super arrogant and racist, he thought he was the smartest while he was not even that good. He would find all kinds of reasons to nitpick and deny any design ideas from his Asian teammates and “force” them to go with his ideas, meanwhile he would approve designs from other teammates of his own race without asking any major questions. Our manager knew nothing about technology (which is normal in federal related companies) and normally wouldn’t say anything. Our manager was probably also a racist but he was actually fine in other aspects. This ex-colleague was super rude to all Asian teammates. For example, in meetings, he would only answer questions from other teammates and ignore questions raised by Asian teammates by saying “let’s follow up offline” but he would never follow up offline and would ignore our followup discussion requests on Skype. Yes I am not lying. Another example, in my first team happy hour, when I went to talk to him, he immediately showed me a poker face and then ignored me and walked away to talk to another person. This made me feel very uncomfortable, especially because when I just joined the team and thought I did something wrong. Later, I knew that this happened to all of my other Asian teammates. There are many other examples that I don’t want to list out. But honestly speaking, I have worked with thousands of people throughout my career and I have had nice teammates of all races, but this ex-colleague is the most disgusting person I have ever worked with. Some of my teammates at that time reported him to manager and HR, but no actions were ever actually taken from the leadership. The leadership probably didn’t care because we were all contractors. Almost all of my Asian teammates left the team for other internal teams or companies outside. I myself applied and joined Amazon as a L5 SDE and was promoted to L6 early this year. Today, when I was browsing on LinkedIn, I saw this ex-colleague in my network and saw he also works at Amazon (a different team). I was curious, so I checked his phonetool and saw he’s L4 (at Amazon we all know that we can use a tampermonkey script to check someone’s level on phonetool). I literally laughed out but then also felt sad when all my bad memories about this racist colleague came out. I spent 30 minutes thinking how I could get “revenge” on him. But in the end, I just sent him a message on slack - “Welcome to Amazon! If you need any mentoring on career development at Amazon, please let me know! I am glad to help!” I don’t know how he will respond to my message, but yes I am being sarcastic to him even though I look like nice. I think I will forget about this unpleasant person and move on. TC: ~350k. #amazon #tech
How many yoe does he have that he’s still L4
:D
It's payback time baby. Take your much needed revenge. Ask him why he joined as L4, ask his salary, tell him freshers join as L4, etc etc
L4 pays more than twenty years in defense.
Defense is a hell of a lot more fun though. Good WLB, too. None of this sweatshop crap.
Lanka laga de bhai uski.. keh ke lena😂😂
What language is that and what does it mean?
He said he is from India and very thankful to work in America.
Lol
I am with new guy. I feel like I am being reported by all non-white people for any stupid shit I do - but white people never report me for it. I can even call I white guy dumbass at work and nothing will happen to me.
> Some of my teammates at that time reported him to manager and HR, but no actions were ever actually taken from the leadership. Probably because you came to them with nothing.
I didn’t report. I was already LeetCoding and getting the f out. My other teammates reported.
Same difference. They came to HR with nothing.
Lol you hacked Amazon and saying this guy is bad? Wow!
> Hacked internal tool. If you have any Amazon friends, ask them what tampermonkey script means. Don’t make us laugh here.
lol.. hacked amazon😂😂😂
lol fake news
Calling someone racist is an insult and should be punishable by law. Madness have to end
If racism is never discussed, it will never be dealt with. I think more people should learn how to better approach the subject when their actions are described as racist
punishable by law? lol, love tears from a racist
Tc or gtfo
Added.
L6 SDE at Amazon makes only 350K?