AWS's issue was more that it tossed people at fires while needing to create long term solutions. Not that they never did so, it's just that there's something that resulted in them tossing devs into their oncall hell rapidly. My last position at Amazon was at AWS, and also the one that landed me in the hospital and prompted me to quit before the job literally killed me.
Ah Amazon. AWS was the worst. And I spent five years in the trenches of one of the most stressful areas of Ordering, and I still rate AWS as The Worst.
Yeah the on-call sucked, but I find the worse is that human compassion is only given to those who perform. If you are struggling and not "killing it" at all times, your manager doesn't offer a hand or suggest a transfer (until you hand in your 2 weeks).
Which is why I find this article relevant. Companies will hire to fill quotas / on-call bodies, but not all them vet or can vet everyone properly so as a candidate you can't even trust that the process is correct.
Gotta be prepared / have the confidence to quit within a weeks / month if it doesn't work out.
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AWS's issue was more that it tossed people at fires while needing to create long term solutions. Not that they never did so, it's just that there's something that resulted in them tossing devs into their oncall hell rapidly. My last position at Amazon was at AWS, and also the one that landed me in the hospital and prompted me to quit before the job literally killed me.
Ah Amazon. AWS was the worst. And I spent five years in the trenches of one of the most stressful areas of Ordering, and I still rate AWS as The Worst.
Yeah the on-call sucked, but I find the worse is that human compassion is only given to those who perform. If you are struggling and not "killing it" at all times, your manager doesn't offer a hand or suggest a transfer (until you hand in your 2 weeks).
Which is why I find this article relevant. Companies will hire to fill quotas / on-call bodies, but not all them vet or can vet everyone properly so as a candidate you can't even trust that the process is correct.
Gotta be prepared / have the confidence to quit within a weeks / month if it doesn't work out.