It's always interesting to see the ratio of green names to normal names in these threads.
What do the green names mean? Never understood
as far as I understand, recent accounts, therefore they are most probably "burner" accounts.
I Got Fired from Amazon as a Software Development Engineer
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#23I won’t comment on whether the action is justified or not in this instance, but: Never hang up on a colleague. Ever. As far as social phone etiquette goes that’s probably one of the most egregious things you can do. Instead, humble yourself, politely disagree and document over email, copying another colleague who witnessed, or if unavailable the manager (in this case the skip).
IDK they probably would have been better off if they ended the conversation earlier rather than "giving their manager a piece of their mind" & then hanging up.
If a conversation is getting too heated, excusing yourself and taking a beat isn't the worst thing in the world.
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#25These stories scare me. Particularly from Amazon where you don't get most of your TC until year 3.
At least at Netflix they pay more cash and if I get fired after a year I have it in my bank.
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#27Sounds like the biggest mistake he made was lashing out at a likely in-over-their-head manager. We are only getting one side, but sounds like he was trying to do the right things to either overcome the challenges and/or create boundaries, but he may have been hired to be a sacrificial lamb. In my consulting times, I was brought into something a lot like this for the purpose of being fired so that the CTO could save t…
You see the sacrificial lamb thing with contractors/consultants because they won’t sue for being put in a bad situation and fired afterwards but not sure if it’s too common with Full time engineers. Amazon is just a toxic workplace and I recommend all my fellow engineers avoid that place like the plague. I’ve heard too many horror stories like OPs.
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#28Wait, so did he get fired, or did he resign?
"What an imbalance of power and being an engineer who feels a strong desire to empower other engineers, I reached my limits and wanted out. A few weeks later, a developer on a neighboring team who reported to the same management resigned."
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#29It's always interesting to see the ratio of green names to normal names in these threads.
Unless you're color blind, in which case you don't see any difference...
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#30Neutral tone and temperament are essential skills at this level. Opinions, not so much.
I’ve worked in similar environments where an SVP ignored all communications about a project until it was useful for them to be interested and gaslight everything that had happened and had been communicated before. In fact, the stink wasn’t on anyone involved, but the project itself. There’s a way to come out of these things unscathed, but righteous indignation usually is never particularly effective.