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I had a similar experience at Amazon. I saw D players give B players scathing interview comments. It almost sounded more like they were scared of being replace
by AndyKelley 14y ago
I had a similar experience at Amazon.
I saw D players give B players scathing interview comments. It almost sounded more like they were scared of being replaced than actually evaluating the candidate.
I watched a teammate get promoted while I was putting out fires for and barely managing to keep running their horribly designed, over-complicated Java service, which really just needed to do CRUD.
I lasted 2 months before I started interviewing elsewhere, but I made it out in 8 months. I happily paid back the signing bonus and gave up the non-vested stock.
- va_coder 14y agoWhy is Amazon so dominant in e-commerce if the working conditions are so bad?
- InclinedPlane 14y agoI don't really have a good answer other than that in e-commerce software development is only a tiny part of the equation.
- Daniel_Newby 14y agoBezos is pretty good at business strategy, and from the outside it looks like upper management is good at forcing a workable product to be delivered come hell or high water.
- wisty 14y agoEverything in Amazon is a replaceable cog, especially the workers.
- Evbn 14y agoAmazon has a really good immune system of that ejects toxic new hires back out to the world where they can't do more actual damage?