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How can you tell ahead of time if the team you're switching to has it any better?

Syonyk 4y ago
Find out what they drink for "Team alcohol evenings." Whiskey team? Ok, probably somewhat stressful but doable. Wine team? Plush and cushy, with a line of people who want to be on that team out the door. Vodka team? Oh hell no. Etc. ... I'm kidding. Sort of. But not entirely.
- hinkley 4y ago
  Not at Amazon, but offering a data point for Team Patron not being a good time.
- blippitybleep 4y ago
  You better watch out for the team who all drink Tennent’s Super Lager.
  - peteradio 4y ago
    More like team alcohol mornings amirite
    - blippitybleep 4y ago
      The team who all have their standup down the canal with a half bottle.
- jjgreen 4y ago
  RedBull & Ketamine?
  - akiselev 4y ago
    You’re probably thinking of a crypto exchange as the money exits the “backdoor”.
Chamix 4y ago
Tech survey results, ops load via CTI tickets, CR/LOC stats, accolades, COEs, promotion rate, turnover/attrition.... There are so many data sources that are all queryable via API. There are a couple basic greasemonkey scripts already floating around but as an SDE it really isn't that hard to write something yourself... It does take a bit of experience to get a good heuristic on weighting the different data points but you can do way better than blindly guessing. I will say as someone who HAS intelligently looked through this data for most teams at Amazon, there is an absolutely MASSIVE difference between the top 10% of teams and the median, and an even larger difference between than and the bottom 10%, which by all metrics appear to truly be hell on earth.
- oblio 4y ago
  > Tech survey results, ops load via CTI tickets, CR/LOC stats, accolades, COEs, promotion rate, turnover/attrition... Tech survey results??
  - nixgeek 4y ago
    Amazon runs an annual survey with typically quite high participation rates, it is very detailed, and the results are often illuminating (and like many things at Amazon, widely accessible to all people).
    - oblio 4y ago
      Yeah, but you can't see stuff outside your group, I imagine? I mean, dis-aggregated, to drill down to team level. OP was making it sound like you could get the results for a specific team you'd want to transfer to.
      - yathaid 4y ago
        What OP was suggesting is exactly what you get. You can see results at the level of any manager and zoom out recursively.
- firstSpeaker 4y ago
ugh123 4y ago
talk to people who work on those teams?

Find out what they drink for "Team alcohol evenings." Whiskey team? Ok, probably somewhat stressful but doable. Wine team? Plush and cushy, with a line of people who want to be on that team out the door. Vodka team? Oh hell no. Etc. ... I'm kidding. Sort of. But not entirely.

hinkley 4y ago
Not at Amazon, but offering a data point for Team Patron not being a good time.
blippitybleep 4y ago
You better watch out for the team who all drink Tennent’s Super Lager.
- peteradio 4y ago
  More like team alcohol mornings amirite
  - blippitybleep 4y ago
    The team who all have their standup down the canal with a half bottle.
jjgreen 4y ago
RedBull & Ketamine?
- akiselev 4y ago
  You’re probably thinking of a crypto exchange as the money exits the “backdoor”.

Chamix 4y ago

Tech survey results, ops load via CTI tickets, CR/LOC stats, accolades, COEs, promotion rate, turnover/attrition.... There are so many data sources that are all queryable via API. There are a couple basic greasemonkey scripts already floating around but as an SDE it really isn't that hard to write something yourself... It does take a bit of experience to get a good heuristic on weighting the different data points but you can do way better than blindly guessing. I will say as someone who HAS intelligently looked through this data for most teams at Amazon, there is an absolutely MASSIVE difference between the top 10% of teams and the median, and an even larger difference between than and the bottom 10%, which by all metrics appear to truly be hell on earth.

oblio 4y ago
> Tech survey results, ops load via CTI tickets, CR/LOC stats, accolades, COEs, promotion rate, turnover/attrition... Tech survey results??
- nixgeek 4y ago
  Amazon runs an annual survey with typically quite high participation rates, it is very detailed, and the results are often illuminating (and like many things at Amazon, widely accessible to all people).
  - oblio 4y ago
    Yeah, but you can't see stuff outside your group, I imagine? I mean, dis-aggregated, to drill down to team level. OP was making it sound like you could get the results for a specific team you'd want to transfer to.
    - yathaid 4y ago
      What OP was suggesting is exactly what you get. You can see results at the level of any manager and zoom out recursively.
firstSpeaker 4y ago

ugh123 4y ago

talk to people who work on those teams?