This has not been my experience at a big tech company(well, amazon) There's plenty of leeway for choosing solutions and who's responsible for what kind of fail

This has not been my experience at a big tech company(well, amazon) There's plenty of leeway for choosing solutions and who's responsible for what kind of failures. I for one have spent a while trying to make sure I just have to throw an exception(with increasingly better messages), and somebody else needs to solve the problem