Re:Ask HN: Normal to feel stuck at Big Tech?
by throwaway203482 on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:23PM
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When you say “a lot of work would look ad-hoc and not well planned,” do you mean it secretly is well planned? Or that it isn’t? I guess the key word is “look”
Re:Ask HN: Normal to feel stuck at Big Tech?
by vaidhy on Monday March 13, 2023 @12:29AM
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Sorry.. just saw this comment. It is not secretly as opposed to it might be planned at a director level.. but when it comes to actual engineers, it would not be necessarily efficient use of engineer's time. There is also lot of communication gap and trying to make build everything in 6 months what was scheduled for a year because of various release freezes.
If I read between the lines, you sound stressed (for whatever reason). You might have been reading too much into the firing/layoff. You might have an unrealistic expectation of the performance required out of you.
In Amazon, you would spend a lot more time interacting with teams that just writing code. The interdependencies between the teams are insane and depending on the level and your team, a lot of work would look ad-hoc and not well planned.
Feel free to DM me if you want to talk about it separately.