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Re:Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work cultur... by mabbo on Monday May 14, 2018 @06:25AM (#17064254)
Fulfillment was like that 5 years ago. Just widely reputed to be the worst place. New upper management came in and started rating the L6/L7 management on their highsev counts. Things got a lot better very quickly.
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Re:Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work cultur... by shanghaiaway on Monday May 14, 2018 @08:29AM (#17064835)
What's highsev?
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Re:Ask HN: Amazon software engineers, how is the work cultur... by mabbo on Monday May 14, 2018 @09:51AM (#17065488)
Every software team is their own operational team as well. A highsev is a high severity ticket/incident, leading to someone being paged in for immediate assistance.
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