Good for developing skills, horrible for career progression
Good for developing skills, horrible for career progression
You work on the latest and shiny (or not so shiny) products from AWS. Data scale is huge. There are some wonderful people. Work schedule is largely up to your manager. If you get a good one, work/life balance is awesome.
Required RTO for employees hired remotely (which is why I left).
Promotions for L6+ are nearly impossible; boomeranging off of another FAANG role is known to be the best way to progress.
Seniority is largely based off tenure, not technical skill. Many underqualified Sr Engineers and PEs are to be found.
Promote your engineers based off their engineering ability and results, rather than tenure.
Use data to justify RTO.
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