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Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by lozenge on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:00PM (#33631390)
How can you tell ahead of time if the team you're switching to has it any better?
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by Syonyk on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:52PM (#33632070)
Find out what they drink for "Team alcohol evenings."

Whiskey team? Ok, probably somewhat stressful but doable. Wine team? Plush and cushy, with a line of people who want to be on that team out the door. Vodka team? Oh hell no. Etc.

... I'm kidding. Sort of. But not entirely.

Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by blippitybleep on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:49PM (#33632754)
You better watch out for the team who all drink Tennent’s Super Lager.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by peteradio on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:04PM (#33634429)
More like team alcohol mornings amirite
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by blippitybleep on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:49AM (#33652033)
The team who all have their standup down the canal with a half bottle.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by jjgreen on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:52PM (#33632787)
RedBull & Ketamine?
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by akiselev on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @11:16PM (#33634896)
You’re probably thinking of a crypto exchange as the money exits the “backdoor”.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by hinkley on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @08:05PM (#33633542)
Not at Amazon, but offering a data point for Team Patron not being a good time.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by Chamix on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @07:36PM (#33633273)
Tech survey results, ops load via CTI tickets, CR/LOC stats, accolades, COEs, promotion rate, turnover/attrition....

There are so many data sources that are all queryable via API. There are a couple basic greasemonkey scripts already floating around but as an SDE it really isn't that hard to write something yourself... It does take a bit of experience to get a good heuristic on weighting the different data points but you can do way better than blindly guessing.

I will say as someone who HAS intelligently looked through this data for most teams at Amazon, there is an absolutely MASSIVE difference between the top 10% of teams and the median, and an even larger difference between than and the bottom 10%, which by all metrics appear to truly be hell on earth.

Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by oblio on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:33AM (#33635999)
> Tech survey results, ops load via CTI tickets, CR/LOC stats, accolades, COEs, promotion rate, turnover/attrition...

Tech survey results??

Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by nixgeek on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:50AM (#33636432)
Amazon runs an annual survey with typically quite high participation rates, it is very detailed, and the results are often illuminating (and like many things at Amazon, widely accessible to all people).
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by oblio on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:27AM (#33636672)
Yeah, but you can't see stuff outside your group, I imagine? I mean, dis-aggregated, to drill down to team level.

OP was making it sound like you could get the results for a specific team you'd want to transfer to.

Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by yathaid on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:10AM (#33639079)
What OP was suggesting is exactly what you get. You can see results at the level of any manager and zoom out recursively.
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by firstSpeaker on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:43AM (#33636062)
Is there any way to get in touch with you and ask a few questions?
Re:Laying myself off from Amazon by ugh123 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:11AM (#33635224)
talk to people who work on those teams?