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Colm is a fairly badass engineer. He was a senior principle when I left. Sounds like they made another level since then and he jumped into VP. Somewhat makes se
by BikiniPrince 5y ago
Colm is a fairly badass engineer. He was a senior principle when I left. Sounds like they made another level since then and he jumped into VP. Somewhat makes sense as he leads the business in both a technical and business sense. Amazon’s traditional issue is they only know how to level managers. Turns out when the company starts accruing some really senior people you have to accommodate them.
This is a fairly fluffy piece of writing. His internal writings were much deeper.
- bbgm 5y agoAmazon has long had a VP-level engineer track (Peter Vosshall was the first IIRC). Colm is very rightly one.
- BikiniPrince 5y agoLong in Amazon years. I departed five or six years ago and Senior Was the end of the road. Similar to how leveling a research scientist was voodoo.