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I've heard from a lot of ex-amazonian's that in practice there's a lot of blaming as part of the process at least in part because of the compensation/promotiona
by phuff 14y ago
I've heard from a lot of ex-amazonian's that in practice there's a lot of blaming as part of the process at least in part because of the compensation/promotional processes. But maybe that's changed recently?
Of course, I've also heard that there is a wide diversity of culture between teams, so maybe that plays in to it, too.
- RandallBrown 14y agoI'm sure it depends a lot on your team and your manager. Also, some people see a process like that and automatically assume blame is being assigned even if it isn't.
- SpikeGronim 14y agoTotally happens, even though it is not supposed to. If a dev didn't outright break the rules then they shouldn't be blamed. The rules in this case would be something like "a peer must review before deploy" - if you bring down the site after breaking that rule, you're going to get fired most likely. I've never had COEs come up in my or others' performance reviews. If the boss who owns the COE "gets it" and has internalized the old-school Amazon culture then there won't be blame. The bosses really take the hits here, they do get personally blamed for these things. If they can't stand between the team and the more senior management then they are not doing it right. If you and your boss mutually hate each other (which unfortunately I have seen) then it won't go well.