I totally buy that there can be unhealthy leadership throughout an org. The story sounds familiar to me. It only takes one bad grand-manager to ruin the show for a lot of people.
If there's one thing that has gotten on my nerves at Amazon, it's this insensitivity to employee retention. I don't know you, but I'm confident Amazon would be better off with you having fun on the right team rather than poking you until you leave. Not letting you leave for greener pastures would be a huge red flag for me. I would ask for the manager logins to avoid.
I've seen other situations where a bad policy followed strictly caused good engineers to walk out the door. Not because they couldn't hack it, but because the policy was arbitrary, or restrictive. Maybe this is endemic to big companies in our industry. I know I prefer a little more anarchy and humanity.
My experience has been one of more regular movement. I had a somewhat unusual move early on, about six months into my tenure. I spent a couple years on a great team and then moved laterally to emerging projects in the same org.
I know our mileage has varied but I think these are two very recognizable portraits (including crisis management) of the company.
I totally buy that there can be unhealthy leadership throughout an org. The story sounds familiar to me. It only takes one bad grand-manager to ruin the show for a lot of people.
If there's one thing that has gotten on my nerves at Amazon, it's this insensitivity to employee retention. I don't know you, but I'm confident Amazon would be better off with you having fun on the right team rather than poking you until you leave. Not letting you leave for greener pastures would be a huge red flag for me. I would ask for the manager logins to avoid.
I've seen other situations where a bad policy followed strictly caused good engineers to walk out the door. Not because they couldn't hack it, but because the policy was arbitrary, or restrictive. Maybe this is endemic to big companies in our industry. I know I prefer a little more anarchy and humanity.
My experience has been one of more regular movement. I had a somewhat unusual move early on, about six months into my tenure. I spent a couple years on a great team and then moved laterally to emerging projects in the same org.
I know our mileage has varied but I think these are two very recognizable portraits (including crisis management) of the company.