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Stories have two sides, someone on blind posted the following, and no one's challenged it so presumably it's true: > The guy made 24 CRs in his entire career a

Stories have two sides, someone on blind posted the following, and no one's challenged it so presumably it's true: > The guy made 24 CRs in his entire career at amazon, all in just one CDK package. > 50% of his CRs are merged without approval. > So, yeah, there you go !

Hokusai 5y ago
> no one's challenged it so presumably it's true Amazon is well known for training employees to defend the company on-line. Aren't you being too generous with an anonymous comment that you provide no link to? Is not possible that is just Amazon propaganda?
- murderfs 5y ago
  https://www.teamblind.com/post/The-guy-got-PIPed-VBvKiiXu https://www.teamblind.com/post/The-guy-got-PIPed-VBvKiiXu 90% of the point of blind is to shit on your own company anonymously (at least, that's what I use it for). I find it hard to believe that it's false, given that probably hundreds of amazon employees have seen that post and no one's refuted it. If Amazon is astroturfing blind, they're doing a spectacularly bad job at it, the general consensus (from Amazon employees even) is that it's a hellhole compared to its peers.
  - hellogoodbye 5y ago
    I think he took down the post on blind
- mijoharas 5y ago
  > Amazon is well known for training employees to defend the company on-line. I left amazon 5 and a half years ago, but never heard anything while I was there about defending the company online. Could you elaborate on this?
  - Hokusai 5y ago
    "After years of ridicule and harsh press coverage, Amazon has finally disbanded its Twitter army. Part of a perplexing guerrilla PR campaign, the Amazon FC Ambassadors were a group of Twitter accounts belonging to employees who were paid to respond to posts criticizing the company." https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/amazon-fc-ambassadors-twitter-fulfillment-centers.html https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/amazon-fc-ambassadors-t... - https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+ambassadors https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+ambassadors
- abirch 5y ago
  Let's assume that it's 100% true. This guy is young and it'd be better for him to delete this. I'm totally going to cyberstalk this guy to see where he goes. My number one rule is not to sh*t on former companies with my main account.
  - Hokusai 5y ago
    > I'm totally going to cyberstalk this guy to see where he goes. That is a felony in many places in the world. Companies do this kind of harassing, thou. That is one of the reasons that companies need to be taxed way more and use that money to assure that people that lose their jobs can still live a decent life. There only way citizens well have freedom of speech is if they are not at the mercy of corporations.
    - hellogoodbye 5y ago
      By Cyberstalk I think he means... "Follow him on Linkedin"?
      - abirch 5y ago
        You're right and great news!!! He made it to Alexa AI team finally.
noway421 5y ago
Not sure there's enough context here to make a judgement. 24 change requests in a year seems okay? How complex were they? 50% no-approval sounds ok if he was the sole maintainer of a particular part of the code/etc. Maybe someone who's knowledgeable with the development of CDKs can shed some light on how reasonable those numbers are.
- dubbel 5y ago
  I had no idea that code could be merged without at least one peer review at any of the big tech companies. That seems like a management failure to me?
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hiyer 5y ago
24 CRs can be huge in Amazon, depending on the team. It can take months to get a single CR approved and merged.
grumple 5y ago
Is CR a merge/pull request?
- deleted 5y ago
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- mr_beans 5y ago
  Yes. It’s taken me a while to say PR instead of CR. At least I’m not quoting LPs at my girlfriend anymore
sergiotapia 5y ago
What is a "CR"? And a "CDK"?
- Aperocky 5y ago
  CDK is an abstraction layer of infrastructure as code: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ I've only seen it written in typescript so node-module and package-locks are a thing.

Hokusai 5y ago

> no one's challenged it so presumably it's true Amazon is well known for training employees to defend the company on-line. Aren't you being too generous with an anonymous comment that you provide no link to? Is not possible that is just Amazon propaganda?

murderfs 5y ago
https://www.teamblind.com/post/The-guy-got-PIPed-VBvKiiXu https://www.teamblind.com/post/The-guy-got-PIPed-VBvKiiXu 90% of the point of blind is to shit on your own company anonymously (at least, that's what I use it for). I find it hard to believe that it's false, given that probably hundreds of amazon employees have seen that post and no one's refuted it. If Amazon is astroturfing blind, they're doing a spectacularly bad job at it, the general consensus (from Amazon employees even) is that it's a hellhole compared to its peers.
- hellogoodbye 5y ago
  I think he took down the post on blind
mijoharas 5y ago
> Amazon is well known for training employees to defend the company on-line. I left amazon 5 and a half years ago, but never heard anything while I was there about defending the company online. Could you elaborate on this?
- Hokusai 5y ago
  "After years of ridicule and harsh press coverage, Amazon has finally disbanded its Twitter army. Part of a perplexing guerrilla PR campaign, the Amazon FC Ambassadors were a group of Twitter accounts belonging to employees who were paid to respond to posts criticizing the company." https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/amazon-fc-ambassadors-twitter-fulfillment-centers.html https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/amazon-fc-ambassadors-t... - https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+ambassadors https://www.google.com/search?q=amazon+ambassadors
abirch 5y ago
Let's assume that it's 100% true. This guy is young and it'd be better for him to delete this. I'm totally going to cyberstalk this guy to see where he goes. My number one rule is not to sh*t on former companies with my main account.
- Hokusai 5y ago
  > I'm totally going to cyberstalk this guy to see where he goes. That is a felony in many places in the world. Companies do this kind of harassing, thou. That is one of the reasons that companies need to be taxed way more and use that money to assure that people that lose their jobs can still live a decent life. There only way citizens well have freedom of speech is if they are not at the mercy of corporations.
  - hellogoodbye 5y ago
    By Cyberstalk I think he means... "Follow him on Linkedin"?
    - abirch 5y ago
      You're right and great news!!! He made it to Alexa AI team finally.

noway421 5y ago

Not sure there's enough context here to make a judgement. 24 change requests in a year seems okay? How complex were they? 50% no-approval sounds ok if he was the sole maintainer of a particular part of the code/etc. Maybe someone who's knowledgeable with the development of CDKs can shed some light on how reasonable those numbers are.

dubbel 5y ago
I had no idea that code could be merged without at least one peer review at any of the big tech companies. That seems like a management failure to me?

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hiyer 5y ago

24 CRs can be huge in Amazon, depending on the team. It can take months to get a single CR approved and merged.

grumple 5y ago

Is CR a merge/pull request?

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mr_beans 5y ago
Yes. It’s taken me a while to say PR instead of CR. At least I’m not quoting LPs at my girlfriend anymore

sergiotapia 5y ago

What is a "CR"? And a "CDK"?

Aperocky 5y ago
CDK is an abstraction layer of infrastructure as code: https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ I've only seen it written in typescript so node-module and package-locks are a thing.