The Day I *Almost* Rage-Quit Amazon
The backstory of a monster with many heads
Hasnain says:
This is a pretty decent article on large scale developer mindset shifts and migrations and has some nuggets of interest when thinking about career growth.
I recommend skipping the first bit though. While stories like this seem ok in hindsight - stuff like this is not okay:
“It’s not that Mr. K had read the doc and then hated it; he literally refused to read it at all. He scanned the first page, circled a bunch of things in red ink, and then just gave up. He put the document down, crossed his arms and impatiently checked his email on his phone while others around him awkwardly continued reading it. He then proceeded to berate me in front of a dozen Directors and Principal Engineers about how much he hated it.”
Posted on 2021-10-20T07:47:37+0000