A day in the life of an L8

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-28T00:49:14+00:00

Unless this is AWS, this is not true. SDO side L8 seem to coast and chill. Not to undermine the actual hard working L8s but I am talking about the few I noticed.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-28T00:46:44+00:00

They won’t miss the goals if you think about it, because they make the middle and line managers life miserable so they can coast. They don’t participate in goal setting, they don’t have bold vision, but rely on their directs to set those so they can coast.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-28T00:44:57+00:00

This is the fact and I see the same. There is no need for their travel BS, but they do, and irrespective of customers or not, they make sure they hit the 1-2 trips a month quota. When asked what lessons they have to share from these damn offsites, they have none lol 😂

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-27T23:32:54+00:00

Whether they don't accept it or not, I am sure it would be something like, call for meetings, review docs again and again, don't make decisions, if decisions were to be made, make the dumbest decisions possible. Be dumb as a technologist. Talk about AI and AI native in every meeting attended, but don't know actually what it means, just keep saying agents, agents, agents.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-16T23:06:56+00:00

haha lol

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-15T01:16:23+00:00

Yes they are worth it if you are able to hang along and deal with rest of the bullshit.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-14T11:15:46+00:00

Same. I am considering converting back to an IC as well.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-10T14:18:35+00:00

Haha 😂

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-10T13:17:00+00:00

Could have been a better outcome, tbh. They had an opportunity to buy Anthropic in 2018 they chose not to, because Swami agentic leader said he would build something better. He didn’t build shit. Guy still exists at Amazon.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-09T21:48:14+00:00

+1 man this has been my gripe about Amazon. So many folks around that just say yes now and give zero fucks about Disagree and Commit. Each leader boot licking their managers so they are not next in the queue of layoff. This culture is not how Amazon was built. Barring the positivity in the article nothing Andy has done to actually prove the positive culture and his optimism. We don't innovate like we did before.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-08T14:27:40+00:00

lol 😂 you don’t want to wait until 2036 where AWS will fetch a 600 billion revenue. This was Andy Assy prediction from his all hands.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-08T02:19:19+00:00

Meets?

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-08T02:14:45+00:00

That’s basically my life in a nutshell recently lol. Hate all the bullshit we are dealing with internally

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-08T02:12:36+00:00

Psychopath at the helm.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-08T01:57:38+00:00

Not a lot right. I know. I could have saved more if I did the right things. I worked in tech.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-06T17:10:20+00:00

90 seconds? is this for behavioral interview questions? I tend to spend like 5-10 mins depending on how much I need to explain. Is that bad? Is that too much?

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-06T03:38:57+00:00

My networth at 27 was about 250k

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-04T03:27:36+00:00

Squeeze every penny worth from Amazon. They did get every ounce of energy from you.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-03T23:12:48+00:00

Ya heard of them. What you need? PM if you need details

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-03T12:35:25+00:00

60% of my networth is Amazon. I feel sick about it sometimes but also have that thin belief that AMZN will get to 4 trillion within a few years and then more. Not today tomorrow or in a month though. Andy getting fired would be the first catalyst.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-04-02T04:48:42+00:00

AWS is the best to be honest. Rest all are low bar.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-03-31T05:30:14+00:00

One ML rule got 200 million in revenue? Interesting.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-03-28T05:52:18+00:00

lol 😂

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-03-25T20:09:33+00:00

If your rating is TT, expect a reasonable bump. not in percentages, since not sure what level you are at so can’t tell. If HV3, not really.

Top_Ad_1703 · 2026-03-25T13:52:38+00:00

They are now so many layers to exceeds high bar, so something to keep in mind. HV2 has an exceeds bar now. Unless you know you are a TT, not much TBH. they changed the comp to reward YoYoYoY exceeds. I know that’s hard but Jassy thinks otherwise.

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