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Cake day: December 17th, 2023

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  • Yeah this was my experience when I worked there. Driving goals and doing good work isn’t enough. You need a fancy project to demonstrate “expanded scope” otherwise your promo would get rejected.

    Sometimes things worked the way you wanted and people got promoted doing their normal job. A lot of times though there were a lot of fancy projects built to get people promos that suckers got stuck with the bill on.

    This ain’t a case of one dude scamming the system as much as it is institutional rot from red tape.


  • At Amazon you have the following levels

    L4 - Junior. A new grad. Expected to be promoted within 2 years or let go

    L5 - Mid engineer. Very wide band. Encapsulates anything between a level 2 engineer and a team lead at other companies. Can be expected to lead individual teams at times. Is considered a “terminal” position (there’s no expectation of a promotion past here)

    L6 - Senior. Has the scope of what a Staff engineer would at other companies where you’re not only concerned with your team but others in the department. I think like 10% of engineers ever hit L6

    L7 - Principal Engineer. You have like 1-2 of these per department. These are more like architects at other companies. About 1-2% of engineers ever hit this band.

    L8 and beyond are for fancy hires and shit. Very few if anyone ever works their way up to those bands.






  • I can’t replicate it but at one point I asked why there were only 5 playable characters in a specific video game. Which the AI snippet tried to tell me that there were actually 120 playable characters.

    Yeah.

    EDIT. I’ll put this in a spoiler as it sort of is but the game in question was

    Tap for spoiler

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

    You could argue there’s 6 total. But there’s only 5 at a given time , which given that you have a party of 3 and can have the other 2 come in as support I thought it was odd you didn’t have 6 at a given time. So I went to DuckDuckGo for speculation and it proudly said there were 120.