What's harder than solving hard problems? Solving problems that don't exist! The real questions though is, how is your boy boyalgo getting all these job offers with crazy salaries like it's nothing?
LC mafias didnt learn how to code. I thinks thats the most reason. people quit big-tech. like i saw senior's comment on blind. he was talking like "I know guys do leetcode very well. but dont know how to code and making shit". real world project is more like philosophy. they need to grind more complexed design. even Gof's design pattern is just a basic fundamental but takes lot of time to be familiar with it.
and also amazon managers. want a pip target. imagine that your colleague try to talk to you to fire. with Saying " Im here to SuPPort YoU!" haha. thats cringe
I love how you film from within the company. It's probably not really legal as it’s no public space but it puts us in your shoes and make us feel with you amazing style. Also appreciate your honesty :)
Agreed, the micro team environment impacts morale more than anything else. Makes for much more productivity in the long term when there's alignment and open communication. Seems like you're on a better path, good luck!
Man I wanted you to drop the alias so bad just so I can look and laugh but I get it. This story had me laughing the entire time i'm looking at Googles offices. Congrats!
When I worked for Amazon, there was soooo much operational work. Tickets, oncall, deployments... I used to code more by doing World of Warcraft macros than in my actual SDE job. Also Maintaining old services is a never ending story and not exciting at all.
For everyone who are planning to join/shift teams, make sure to have a word with the Manager and the SDEs under him to get an understanding about the management and opportunities.
Dude I'm assuming that people are working from home which is why that office space is so empty. I can't imagine being there all alone for hours on end. That's nuts.
I was SDE II in Amazon and I could say Amazon is one of the worst place ever to work. I am going to quit next week. Personally I believe Google culture and ethics is much better than Amazon.
Bro, almost a similar boat at Amazon. I wake up dreading my life everyday. Was hoping on a jump to Google too, but the freeze messed it for me man. Thanks for sharing these videos.
@@jayrollo1352 Dang, I feel you bro. I feel, I am going to put up with this shit for 2 more years and move to management with an MBA. Hate sitting and staring the screen for long.
@@programming1734 Dude same. I feel like management is just so much more easier. The problem with Google is that management is also a technical role. I envy product managers at other FAANG's who take long lunches and don't have stressful deadlines. I'm a newgrad swe a few months in and the imposter syndrome is so bad. I want to work well, but the anxiety of being slow, ironically, slows me down further.
Wow!!!...Having a weekly one-on-one...now that's what I call a NANO MANAGER. I have issues with MICRO MANAGERS. So I'll definitely have issues with NANO MANAGERS. 😭 Oops, I forgot to add the daily tag ups (one in the morning, then after lunch, then before you leave to go home).
My advice would be to have fun and build cool projects! Also make sure to meet lots of people that are in CS. It makes the process a lot more enjoyable :)
I'm currently an Amazon Dev. In my experience, degrees matter very little. What they are looking for is project experience and how well you think / code. FWIW, I feel like I'm a pretty shit programmer. I'm surprised they took me. Originally, I turned down Amazon, but four months later they came back and offered me $27k more, plus full-time remote.
@@dande3139 realistically speaking from your experience, how possible would it be to get a programming job working for a f(m)aang company without a degree?
As someone starting as a software engineer at AWS soon, I really hope this is not indicative of what my experience is gonna be like... Any tips for my first weeks/months there?
It really depends on the org. I work in an org which is product oriented, with high standards on code quality and huge variety in technologies. I understand that my org is an unicorn in this company. We have great, albeit not perfect, managers and I actually like working here a lot.
Amazon is so large and diverse, you're going to get a widely different experience based on where you end up. But people get moved around and quit a lot, so your team isn't going to stay consistent. There's also a strong "Everyone's a leader" mentality cultivated at Amazon, which can lead to competing goals and a lot of office politics. My best advice: Those Amazonians who stay here the longest, don't take their job too seriously. Do what you can do, and when criticism comes your way, learn from it if you can and move on. But at the end of the day, work to live, don't live to work.
@@dande3139 Your analysis and advice is spot on based on my experience; it's critical to do your best work and also not get emotionally attached to the work/job.
Im at amazon as a warehouse aa and im doing career choice for data analytics and i want out this watehouse soooo bad man i dread going to work everyday, the managers, the people the culture its just 🤢
For real. He used customer obsession against me in our 1 on 1 meetings. Like I told him that this team assigned me to do this work and I listened to them and did everything they asked me. But he was like "NAH. You need to figure out what they need without even asking them. Like figure out something they never even knew they needed." LIKE WHAT THE HELL
Those big tables with that 8 inch divider was supposed to be for software engineers to do their work? That's so dumb... They want cheap space but it's brutal trying to concentrate in an environment like that.. assuming at some point the place wasn't a ghost town. Working remote is SO much more productive.
To ask your employees to turn 1 + 1 = 3 is often unrealistic. To be a manager who claims his employees can do that without closer involvement is out of touch.
You were hired to restructure. You get assigned to a team and the manager there immediately sends you elsewhere. So he basically didn't want you to come in his way or to bring up some things he might no be good at. Whatever he said to you about the work at the other team: He wasn't too interested. He could have always spoken to the other manager OR get you back. You quitting totally did support his plans. Nevertheless: Sometimes you have to push yourself to get what it needs to do a good job - build a network e.g. and bring up better ideas. You could have done more than just having accepted the shitty project. But good that everything went well in the end
Very agree, if it's a junior position the complaint still make sense, if it's a mid-level position, would be a disappointment that one can't investigate what the team is doing and provide advice for better design, and need a detailed instruction of what he/her should do.
It's totally dependent on what team you are on and what org you are part of. Amazon is overall a good place to grow and learn. No company wants their employees to suffer. I liked your video. Good knowledge sharing.
This is your job to understand the Expectations of your manager. Even if you leave this job and become an entrepreneur then believe me that customer will be your boss and he will tell 50 different things to you. If you have taken the loan from the bank then very low level person will keep on bothering you about the various status updates about the business because they have invested in your business. Whatever you do in your life you will not be able to get rid of boss. 😀
No, the description he gave is not aligned with what is expected from a junior engineer at Amazon. At Amazon, junior engineers are supposed to be told what tactical work items they need to complete with clear specifications. They are not supposed to be tasked with figuring out how to fix the problems of teams they are assigned to.
Exactly, it sounds like a personal issue rather than a company issue. There is a lack of ability to make something good out of a bad situation and a tendency to resort to granting instead. I wouldn't consider working with a person like this. I'm glad he left Amazon.
To play devil's advocate, as you describe the issue, you didn't actually do what was asked if you. You say you didn't know what you could do to help the team with retention. You also never ASKED why people were leaving, and what you could do to make their lives easier. Instead, you asked "what do you want me to do?" That's not ownership. No wonder your manager was unhappy, and no wonder you were as well. You didn't even attempt the problem put forth.
You idi.iot before playing devil’s advocate understand that he never thought it is worth explaining everything and you are sticking to what he said in a line and why the hell should he explain it to you !! Have a life , respect his reasons
This isn't even playing a good devil's advocate. It's just blaming a singular person for the process and organization of operations management that is a group of higher level executives. That doesn't make sense.
My manager assigned me to be like a temporary loaner engineer to another team (to help them improve their processes). I listened to the manager on the loaner team and did the work that they assigned me. My manager wasn't happy with the work I was doing on other team because he didn't think I was doing useful work on the loaner team.
Well your portrayal of Google in this video is very different than the other videos where you complain about under performing and feeling impostor syndrome working there. Probably better to look back and remember what you learned from the position at Amazon and how you grew than how "horrible" it was. Lots of developers would consider themselves lucky to have been in your shoes.
yeah i was making 160k at Amazon. to surprise you even more they pay even higher now (190k-200k) for the exact same job and level. its google, the new company i work at.
@minciNashu, that's FAANG, and FAANG adjacent companies. Most software engineers don't get paid that, even in the US. Also should be noted that it's probably salary+bonus+stock.
Sounds like he wanted you to improve a team, you failed to find anything to improve. You should have communicated that back to your manager. Instead you ask their team for work? The goal was never to get work from them 😂 your manager gave you the objective from the beginning 💀
Some of the most affordable densely populated cities in America (which is where big tech companies are headquartered) charge $3+ per square foot. So a studio apartment for $1500 per month is the cheapest place that isn't in a sketchy part of town.
You steal and makes left my iobs ,how to pay off the total on my business way of not approved by my owner personal business enterprise ,now everyone talks about left jobs and money and bankruptcy ,why only one night burning lost everything and money ..
From $160k to $220k Meanwhile, le me who got selected for a data engineering role but have to learn frontend with minimum pay cuz: "You're an intern, it's your learning phase, and our requirement changed" 🥲🥲
