For most of my career, I've been an SW engineer (I'm an old geezer, one of these old SDE2 folks that the young at heart and age might ask themselves how on earth this guy with white hair in their beard did not retire by now). Been at Amazon for 3.5 years and I really like the full ownership approach - I write design docs, I code, I test, I'm the QE, I'm the dev-ops/SRE. I don't like Amazon's cliff. There are quite a few post IPO companies with way better refresher policies. One can get matching TCs (or close to mathcing) even outside of FAANG. I got such an offer - the role will be SDE3 like when it comes to scope and influence. What I don't like is the fact they are shifting away from full ownership. The discussion is not whether I'm crazy or sane for liking that model, but what companies offer such an experience, except for Amazon. Thank you for all the help and may you never run out of disk space while fetching all the packages from the repo. #software #swe #sre #amazon #l6
Amazon sucks. Too many hours spent on the "dev ops" part of the job
It is VERY empowering and rewarding though. Don’t knock it till you try it.
I worked for this dumpster for 5 years. Never coming back
At the end of the day, your role is what you make of it. I'm sure any company would love for an engineer to be driven and self-sufficient in all areas. Bring up ideas to your manager in your 1:1 meetings and don't be afraid to challenge the status quo.
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So - A. Does Lyft offer such an ownership model? B.Is this puke or cash? once you reach my age you might start having vision problems..