I recently got an offer from amazon for an sde1. I’ve heard a lot about amazon’s work culture. A bit curious to know what kinda pressure can I expect? is it deadlines, high expectations, or type of work? or what exactly? According to me, pressure is something that you can find anywhere. How is it different here @amazon? First of all, is it really different at amazon?This really scares me, any suggestions? please! #amazon #sde Seattle, aws team.
Suggestions: start LC from now on.
Have you seen House of Cards? From what I have heard and seen... that basically describes it.
it depends on the group. it might not be so different. culture within a group might also change over time.
Which groups are better in terms of culture? Do you know about Alexa/Lab126?
yes, alexa software is not that good. But it’s been a while since I left, so I can’t say. Also again Alexa/Lab is such a big org. Not bad to do for 2 years and move on. the colleagues and manager matter a lot. Good managers are hard to find imo.
Why not just spend another month to LC a bit harder and try F and G? You're already close. Also why not try Microsoft?
I have Microsoft on-site in two weeks. Badly wanna get through it. Meanwhile wanted to know about my current offer from amazon.
I would personally throw the Amazon offer into the garbage disposal.
Yoe?
AWS teams usually have worse on-calls than other teams.. that being said, work pressure for SDE1s is not that bad, I don’t think you can even get PIPed unless you’re absolute garbage at coding
Just saw a post about a sde1 getting pip’d in 6 months. How do you find out you are garbage and should get better before joining?
Oh man Aws team. Good luck!
Very team dependent! But it's hard to know before hand how your team is. Remember that there's a quota of 5% (at a group level of around 200) managers have to get rid of every year. You need to evaluate constantly whether you may fall into it. While evaluating, competence may not be the only criteria, the perception of competence and performance matters more. To change that perception, sometimes people play politics. I found higher correlation between teams managing complex systems and high pressure. If you're joining a team with simpler systems and you're competent, you may be fine.
To answer your question... The culture is endless work coming your way and you need to be your own gatekeeper. I think of it as a firehouse and if you don't control the pressure your going get knocked down. With that said, there's lots of us that enjoy amazon (myself included) and you just need to control youelr workload (and have good enough work pace that controlled volume is OK - people who aren't great can survive by burning themselves out). Good news is SDE1 (L4) doesn't have this work load problem as bad most of the time.
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That’s so motivating, thank you 😊
This is some of the best advice I’ve read here.