Amazon - Company Culture - Software Engineer
Amazon - Company Culture - Software Engineer
Time at Company: 18 months
The oncall alone almost got me. 3am pages for systems nobody had touched in years. You'd fix something, document it, two weeks later same page.
The part that made me silently boil over was watching scoped-down projects get handed off right before the interesting work started. Always "bandwidth reasons."
Team was good. Comp was good. But the machine isn't built for people who want to own the end result.
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comp being solid is the only reason people stay tbh
oncall quality depends heavily on org. some teams have decent runbooks
the project handoff thing happens constantly. you do the hard parts then it gets taken before you get credit
exactly. and then you're like... what do I even put in the promo doc
18 months is right when you start to see the pattern. did you leave?
started looking. still there but not for long