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You are comically uninformed on this topic. Please dont repeat incorrect second or third hand “understandings.” I dont have time to itemize everything, but… it
by donavanm 2y ago
You are comically uninformed on this topic. Please dont repeat incorrect second or third hand “understandings.”
I dont have time to itemize everything, but… its not “stack” as much as “bucket” or “matrix”, but similar outcomes. I never once heard of any sort of “promo to fire”, its prima facia ridiculous. Any FTE can change teams 30 (iirc) days after hire, regardless of job level. SDE3 is “ terminal” in that there’s no requirement to advance, but its not uncommon to move to SDM or PE. Offhand ~10-15% of all SDE are “3”, and ~2-3% PE, maybe 0.5 Sr PE, and a fair few DE. oh and “average” tenure, I wonder what the average might be when the company expands total FTE count by 15-30% per year, and an attrition rate of 10-13%.
SOURCE: me, was 13 years at aws including promo up to PE.
- AtlasBarfed 2y ago13 years. Lottery winner perspective! Also, I'd guess (I never knew anyone at AWS) that AWS was better than Amazon, especially it's sweet profit margins behind the scenes. Thirteen years implies you probably joined and still had exposure to upper reaches of management, as opposed to ten years later where some new hire is a pissant with 20 layers of management separating them, and 10 years of "raising the bar" or as I would like to call it "upping the hazing" that will impact new and lower levels before the politically insulated.