Re:Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek
by Chronic9q on Saturday August 27, 2016 @12:53AM
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> The engineers working on this HR software all passed the same technical interviews that everybody else did.
No, they didn't. They likely were interviewed by the hiring manager. Which, a hiring manager of an internal tools team, does not face the public scrutiny of engineering detail required by a front facing mass consumer product. Therefore internal tools teams do not require as rigid software engineering rules as mass consumer products.
> Amazon could have easily allocated them to some flashy consumer product, but management decided that it's important to have a team working on HR software.
No, they couldn't. Internal HR tools usually means CRUD applications. Why would you put a SQL developer on a deep learning optimization team?
Don't try to defend Amazon here. They have messed up with the way they treat employees. 30 hour weeks doesn't change that.
No, they didn't. They likely were interviewed by the hiring manager. Which, a hiring manager of an internal tools team, does not face the public scrutiny of engineering detail required by a front facing mass consumer product. Therefore internal tools teams do not require as rigid software engineering rules as mass consumer products.
> Amazon could have easily allocated them to some flashy consumer product, but management decided that it's important to have a team working on HR software.
No, they couldn't. Internal HR tools usually means CRUD applications. Why would you put a SQL developer on a deep learning optimization team?
Don't try to defend Amazon here. They have messed up with the way they treat employees. 30 hour weeks doesn't change that.