Interesting Projects, Toxic Management
Interesting Projects, Toxic Management
Work on very interesting projects. Lots of opportunities to grow technically. Looks great on a resume.
PIP factory stories are real. Even if you start with a good manager, getting a new manager can ruin your experience.
Leadership principles and other things like "working backwards" or "two-way door" are cult nonsense that makes people at Amazon think they know better than everyone else in the industry who already does the same things.
Managers are given far too much leeway.
If a manager doesn't like someone, they can trivially ruin their career at Amazon, and HR is useless in protecting non-managers.
The PIP factory discourages quality engineers from staying around. Instead, you keep people who know how to rub elbows.
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