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> Everything the parent comment mentioned is exactly what we see. Current sde1 bluebadge. I also see exactly what the parent comment mentioned. I also saw a f
by taway_zonian257 5y ago
> Everything the parent comment mentioned is exactly what we see.
Current sde1 bluebadge. I also see exactly what the parent comment mentioned. I also saw a few nasty episodes such as L6 managers quitting in less than a year in because they hated the pressure they were subjected to, and a yellowbadge say during a all-hands to a bunch of newly arrivals that he was at the company when they joined and he will still be at the company when they all left. I know of a team where SDE2s and SDE3s felt the need to pull in all-nighters and even work the entire weekend to meet the deadlines that their L7 leadership pulled out of their ass. I myself felt compelled to work close to 12 hours a day and weekends during a period just because my senior manager wanted to shine. And yes, I've already see a fair share of colleagues disappear.
Of course YMMV but I'm baffled why I'm seeing accurate descriptions of what I'm personally experiencing on a daily basis being faced with such a sense of incredulity.
> because the engineering quality is so shoddy and the business plan prioritizes maintaining system uptime,
I've created this throwaway account just to comment on the issue of engineering quality being shoddy.
It's true that engineering quality is shoddy but the problem is caused by Amazon's structure and not by the engineers themselves. For example, each and every single engineer is expected to deliver major tasks alone as part of their evaluation process, and this means that by design we are placed on tasks where we are way over our head and we are still expected to deliver things out of thin air. This sort of trial by fire is sold under the premise of allowing us to deliver consistently at the next level before being considered for a promotion, but in practice if you screw up that's expected to also be held against you.
- mavsman 5y agoFormer AWS/Alexa engineer. Totally forgot about the whole badge color thing. Can't stand that crap. Things are very dependent on team and manager and org but I will say that one of the things I'll never miss is our Re:Invent launch. That was horrible. Our team (startup acquisition) basically had a giant retro after the launch to figure out how we could avoid doing that again. Most of the startup members left the team of the company 2 years in. I learned a lot.
- nimabo 5y agoWhat do the badge colors mean?
- SheinhardtWigCo 5y agoLength of tenure
- EarlKing 5y agoFormer contractor here... blue = full-time/permanent employee white = seasonal/temp employee yellow = vendors (and DSP employees, if I remember right). It's more or less their way of tagging you with a yellow star so they know who they can treat like shit. Hah, just kidding, they treat everyone like shit.
- Torn 5y agoThis is incorrect: https://blog.aboutamazon.eu/discover-whats-behind-the-amazon-id-badges#:~:text=The%20photo%20ID%20badge%20is,are%20called%20inside%20the%20company https://blog.aboutamazon.eu/discover-whats-behind-the-amazon....
- EarlKing 5y agoI'm genuinely not sure what those are. They appear to have been proposed at some Seattle facility: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-sleek-new-badges-irk-some-employees/ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-sleek-n... I've worked at two different facilities in CA and never once seen those. We still used the white/yellow/blue badge scheme. Are there any ambassadors in this thread who know what those are?
- mter 5y agoIf you saw any blue badge employees with a yellow/red/purple border around their badge, then that signifies how long they've been at the company. Saying someone is a yellow badge badge is saying that they are a full time employee with 5-9 years of tenure, most SDEs don't work with contractors so we don't talk about yellow badge contractors all that often. If you're interested in this sort of thing, the color is actually supposed to be orange, but the color came out yellow.