Micro-management and busy work
Micro-management and busy work
You can learn a lot if you luck yourself onto a good team, and a lot of other companies think Amazon on your resume makes you extremely desirable.
Managers like to micromanage, consistently pestering engineers for information so they can do their status updates that no one reads. A lot of teams are built to remedy tech debt from other teams, and you don't want to be on one of them!
Stop focusing on your wiki docs and listen to your engineers.
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North Reading, Massachusetts, United StatesMay 4, 2025I had one OA, followed by a three-round interview loop. The first two rounds involved me solving LeetCode Medium questions, and the last round was system design. I was asked one to two LP questions per round, and they also asked follow-ups to my answ
