throw8881

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   by throw8881 5y ago

   From your other post that I read here: >I just waited until my next stock vesting, then took a severance package and left that rancid shithole. We were working on some retarded dead-end boondoggle of a device, and I'm sure everyone
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   by throw8881 5y ago

   I will offer my perspective, and this is not to disparage or dispute anyone else's experience at Amazon or any other company. Personally, I worked at two companies before Amazon. I left both companies because I was unhappy. Two people
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   by throw8881 5y ago

   I'm an engineer now at Amazon and have bounced around a few organizations in the years I've been here. Maybe the particular team you interviewed with wasn't happy, but I don't think this is systemic. Often times, people
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   by throw8881 5y ago

   >I feel like most of these stories are just coming out recently, in the last year or so. Maybe things hit a tipping point during the pandemic? Current Amazon engineer here. People have been complaining working at Amazon for a long while.
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   by throw8881 5y ago

   Current engineer at Amazon. Maybe a particular bad manager is doing this, but there's no institutional mechanism where management or executives literally count people's commits. Worst case, you're on a team who's late on