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Comment #13132210
I agree. If you read the glassdoor reviews, engineers were posting warnings about Amazon back in 2008.
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Comment #13077654
> What the hell does cheating mean in software development. Management. At Amazon there are literally thousands of managers that don't know what the hell they are doing just waitin…
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Comment #13068086
> No one would have ever though paternity leave would be a thing 5 years ago. That's sad that people work there. How many billions does Jeff have again? Oh yeah, $61.7 billion doll…
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Comment #13061446
There are refresh equity grants unless you are on a PIP. Now you know what all the fucking PIPs are all about at Amazon (other than blocking your transfer). You should not listen t…
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Comment #13060781
Amazon tries to trap people through control by visas, and they will go so far as to relocate people overseas to Seattle. They have a fucked up system where rank and file get the da…
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Comment #12603128
You don't have to worry about it with Amazon. Amazon definitely doesn't pay 170k to 99% of their SDEs. SDE2 total comp is under 150k and that is at least 95th percentile.
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Comment #12511968
What are the major changes that were instituted and what are the results?
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Comment #12504585
That is sad. They could have made double the SDE2 salary of $120k somewhere else. No one is really sure what Amazon PE's did or do to be a principal engineer. Most people think PE'…
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Comment #12441133
An Amazon employee less than #10 does a seminar about SDE careers at Amazon where he/she brags about how Amazon fired all their early engineers because "they weren't good enough." …
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Comment #12371129
What is likely occurring at Amazon is that the board has outlined that executive and line managers should be paid based on number of reports beneath them and this is a scheme simpl…
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Comment #12262902
>What are the attributes of a crappy manager? The director in charge of Fire TV was part of a sex trafficking ring that victimized Korean slaves in Bellevue, WA. This person is und…
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Comment #12184917
Amazon is not in direct competition with those companies. Amazon bottom feeds on new grad hires, people with restrictive visas, and interns. Their 90th percentile pay for developer…
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Comment #12184897
"I'm ex-AWS. Actually an ex-AWS hiring manager. My experience is at odds with the negative stories." And then there is the Fire TV team who had to work under a director who was ind…
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Comment #11827861
Oh...you think that stack ranking has anything to do with performance.
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Comment #11823136
Changing teams is pointless. Every manager of every team at Amazon has burner employees whether anyone knows it or not. Part of being an employee is trying to determine if you are …
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Comment #11822789
I guarantee they told your execs something completely different because Amazon. SOP is to tell you don't worry be happy while loading you up with blame coming down from your direct…
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Comment #11599955
Amazon treats RSU's as cash compensation. It's a very stupid strategy to keep employees on the leash and from getting rich. If your RSU's double you won't get raises, bonuses, or m…
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Comment #11532256
Why don't you quit? Serious question. Your boss says the stock is doing well and that's a reason to screw you on pay? Does anyone believe this shit? Compensation target is beyond s…
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Comment #11528120
Did you read the article at all? "Amazon laid off "dozens of engineers" in its Lab126 hardware unit"
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Comment #11528113
They took tens of millions of dollars of revenue and built some huge balls in downtown Seattle, so I don't think they were hurting for money.
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Comment #11527780
That is how it works at all. The company took in $107,000,000,000 dollars in 2015 but were just forced to layoff off engineers. Right, no despotic dictatorship banana republic stuf…
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Comment #11527594
The story is that Amazon sacrifices engineers and others after every big project, success or failure. They have developed a weird human sacrifice culture. Fire phone? It was a fail…