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I got PIP'd twice, passed the first and took the money the second time. Some advice from my experience. Talk to your doc / therapist, you might be able to extend the medical leave.…

Codestar is simpler than and has too many feature gaps compared to the internal offerings, which makes building and deploying Amazon scale multi-tier, multi-environment services di…

Shall we call November 2022 the Mythical Musk Month? I'm not a tweep, but I'd add: - if you have any sort of access to your employer's network from your personal devices (e.g. emai…

I'm guessing he's NOT talking about S3's user data. He's talking about runtime logs of the S3 service, or possibly logs from Amazon's services that are written to S3. Amazon has ~1…

The only way you can really do your own work is if you build the career capital (trust etc.) that is required to do that. If you've got it already, is this worth spending it on, or…

I had a TPM that did the opposite of all of these... It was a complete shit-show. Then an even worse thing happened, they turned into an SDM.

For SDEs median is closer to 2.2. But that just talks about those that are still there though. It doesn't show when those that are not quit.

In my case they built in a back loaded effective salary increase rather than being perfectly flat. Cost of living perhaps? E.g. your example becomes TC (285, 292, 305, 318) or some…

My Amazon salary history, to anchor some of this story better: - Joined early early 2017 as an L5 hire (no previous FANG experience, but 10+ elsewhere) with an an offer of base $14…