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What was wrong with the first team? How large are teams, generally? Are we talking like, six people, or sixty?
by Danihan 9y ago
What was wrong with the first team? How large are teams, generally? Are we talking like, six people, or sixty?
- 52-6F-62 9y agoI'd also like to hear more on this, if possible
- patch_cable 9y agoTeams are generally 4 to 8 people. At Amazon you frequently hear the term "two-pizza team", meaning the team can be fed with two large pizzas. That's the size they usually target.
- amznthrow 9y agoI didn't like the project I was assigned, didn't like the underlying design of the org's charter, didn't like the hours. I also got transferred between managers. I didn't really like it from the director down. It sounded way cooler from the pitch the hiring manager gave me. Team size is not a well-defined concept, TBH -- hierarchies can be structured in very different ways, and a team can be comprised of people with different managers. Also, if you love your director and adjacent teams, it would be unlikely you'd hate your own team. Once I was inside, I found a few teams that sounded cool. At that point, I could easily meet people on those teams, read survey results on the managers, ask around about the new teams, visit the offices at 6-7 PM and see who was still around. This is somewhere between 10-100x the information I could get as an internal employee than as an external applicant. This led me to joining a team where I'm very happy. And if things went really badly -- I could have switched again! (Might look bad if you switch a ton though)