> The thing I've noticed at Amazon is that not only are the pre-existing conditions awful, but nobody has any interest or willpower to fix it. Everyone will hap

> The thing I've noticed at Amazon is that not only are the pre-existing conditions awful, but nobody has any interest or willpower to fix it. Everyone will happily vent to you and tell you how awful things are, but any suggestions to fix it or make things more efficient (even if the fix is very simple and requires low effort) will be met with hostility. And I'm not just talking tech issues, but also process/workload issues. SDE1 here. IMMV of course but on my corner of the org I've seen a bunch of team members raising concerns regarding tech debt for the L7 to shut it down as it got in the way of delivering the features he wanted to deliver. Also the elephant in the room is how the company relies on trial by fire as a form of performance evaluation, which involves inexperienced SDEs being pushed to deliver alone chunks of major projects in spite of lack of experience or insight.