Feb 06, 2022 21:00:00

Software engineer testifies about Amazon's harsh working environment

On Amazon, poor working conditions are reported, such as warehouse employees testifying that they can

not even take a break in the toilet , and delivery staff testifying that they are forced to urinate in PET bottles. However, 'software engineers have a bad working environment as well,' the post by software developer Jiawei Wang , who just quit Amazon, has sparked controversy.

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Mr. Wang was working for Amazon as a software development engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS) . One day, Wang, who was invited by the Alexa AI team, submitted a department transfer request to his boss, and probably because it was Amazon's performance evaluation season, his boss pushed Wang to another team.

Mr. Wang, who retired from Amazon because he could not move to the desired team, said that when looking for a new job, as a self-appeal, 'Delivery date is Monday morning or Friday afternoon? Easy!' 'Saturday midnight 2 'Sometimes I call you? No problem!' And so on, and I post a sentence on the business SNS LinkedIn that suggests how bad the working environment was in my previous job.

In addition, 'I can afford to be called every month for a team that quit half in a month.' 'Even though I wrote 51,000 lines of the 68,000 lines of code created by the team by myself,' Don't say 'most useless'. '' Amazon refuses. I really appreciate your understanding. 'It's clear that these words refer to Amazon's working environment. In addition, it is said that a request for deletion came from somewhere in the post made on LinkedIn, but Mr. Wang explained that 'it is based on personal experience and does not refer to a specific individual or organization.' increase.

Some people claiming to be Amazon engineers have agreed to this post.

Tod Bookless , a former Amazon development manager, said, 'I received a 20-page design document at 23:30 and was told,'I want feedback by 5:30 in the morning.'' 'When I posted the same issue before, it was viewed by 700,000 people in 24 hours and received a lot of feedback from employees,' he said.

On the other hand, in Hacker News, the_amzn_race , who claims to be an Amazon software development engineer, said, 'Amazon's evaluation mechanism is to objectively evaluate people and minimize prejudice, so any performance degradation is certain. It's visible, but it's tiring to maintain team performance. The boss of this poster (Wang) was probably lazy, 'says Amazon's rating system, though it's okay. He points out that his boss had a problem.