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While all previous evidence goes towards pointing this to be another way for AMZN to squeeze more out of their employees, I think we could give them the benefit
by vadym909 10y ago
While all previous evidence goes towards pointing this to be another way for AMZN to squeeze more out of their employees, I think we could give them the benefit of doubt. I think they may have seen a segment of talented developers saying I don't want to be in this ratrace. I'd rather work 30hrs/week and make $100K to maintain work-life balance. 6hrs/week or 4 days/week. I wish more companies were open to this. It would reduce internal competition. Some of the 60 hr/week employees are gunning for promotions and probably don't care about work life balance. Why should everyone have to compete with that?
- jchendy 10y ago> I think we could give them the benefit of doubt I've found that this is a much less stressful and more productive way to approach most things in life. > Some of the 60 hr/week employees are gunning for promotions and probably don't care about work life balance. Why should everyone have to compete with that? That seems totally reasonable. It's similar to the way tech companies have a concept of a "terminal level" where it's considered fine to spend your whole career with no pressure or expectations to earn further promotions.
- Chronic9q 10y ago> It's similar to the way tech companies have a concept of a "terminal level" where it's considered fine to spend your whole career with no pressure or expectations to earn further promotions. And who else besides Jeff Dean, enjoys such a distinguished role?
- jchendy 10y agoTerminal level is usually "senior software engineer" or the equivalent. Something that every competent engineer can reasonably be expected to achieve.
- serge2k 10y agoSenior dev is usually fine to stay at as long as you keep producing. Amazon states that SDE-II is fine actually. I think that's just their way of keeping the bar for senior higher.
- mroll 10y ago> While all previous evidence goes towards pointing this to be another way for AMZN to squeeze more out of their employees... Why would you go against a theory that all evidence pointed toward? I think what you meant is that despite what it looks like at first glance, there could be reasons why this is a good idea. You should present evidence for those arguments, maybe based on personal experience
- Twirrim 10y agoIf Amazon had a good track record for people working only 40 hours a week, I might be less skeptical about this 30 hour week situation. There are very few technical teams inside that seem to come even close to that, so I'm extremely doubtful that managers are going to be sufficiently disciplined to keep their staff down to 30 hours, nor employees sufficiently empowered either. It's so hard to see this as anything other than a way to pay people less for comparable work.
- dleslie 10y agoI'd love to make $100k USD working a 40h week.