I used to be in the Away Team at Amazon. Terrible experience. Within 0.5y I changed 3 lines of code. Most of the time was spent in unproductive meetings with in

I used to be in the Away Team at Amazon. Terrible experience. Within 0.5y I changed 3 lines of code. Most of the time was spent in unproductive meetings with individual teams "gossiping" - he said it works that way but she thinks that's actually an edge case because of this so what do you think. Some code was secret, all documentation was outdated. Asking for a specific code change, or waiting for a promised deliverable usually was just idle time. All that while teams have their own goals and priorities, and you're treated like an outsider. Honestly I feel like I wasted a year of life while at that team.