FYI we are hiring! Ever since I joined Amazon, I noticed that my manager, skip level manager and other co-workers appreciate and celebrate someone who works until midnight or 3AM or works on weekends to fix an issue or even launch a new feature. Such guys are recognised during sprint retrospection. It's great to thank those who went an extra mile but creating a culture that encourages working long hours is a problem. It results in peer pressure. It is impossible, at least for me to produce same amount of output than those working longer hours. I can't spend that much time working because I live a balanced life with daily Yoga, workout as well give my time to my parents, wife and kid as well. I put in around 50 hours a week. Am I underperforming or is the culture toxic here in my team? Is this kind of culture normal across teams in Amazon and other FAANG? Tc $60000 per year in Amazon Chennai, India. Sde2 8yoe. #amazon #culture #workhours
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Can you please name some? Want a few names to research.
It's just your team culture. Should you be worried? Yes if they are delivering more than you.
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Sounds toxic. People in my team sometimes work during weekends or late at night as well. But it's entirely voluntary & doing so doesn't earn any extra points. It's all about how much you deliver.
That people could deliver more, if they work overtime. Also, they could get more critical projects, because they are ready to spend extra time to get things done faster.
People who work more often don't deliver more. Always working overtime means being more tired and making more mistakes.
It's probably also an India thing. Are your managers coming from ICCs?
Is it celebrating or is it being appreciative of someone putting in extra effort? It would be pretty bad if people worked till 3am and no one acknowledged or said thank you. I generally say “thanks for doing this in your personal time, let’s see how we can avoid last minute scrambled like these and have our WLB” or something along the lines depending on the situation.
I totally agree with you on the second paragraph. Those putting in extra efforts should be appreciated. The problem is instead of fixing the problem with our estimation for example, it is being a new norm for everyone to be ready to work for longer hours.
You don't have to do yoga etc, is a decision you are doing. Some other people is deciding being a hero for their manager is the most important thing. Reflect if you are OK with continuing with your decisions and face consequences or change your decision ( favor less your own activities or change company)
This is not the right advice. It's not about yoga. It's also not an Amazon thing (I have friends at Amazon, most have decent WLB, and don't need to stay up until 3 AM unless they are oncall and there's an event). It's about leadership being Ok with (or encouraging) not having WLB. Boundaries need to be set between work and life and management needs to respect those.
Sounds like leadership in ok in OP’s since he got a pay increase despite working less than teammates
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