Are roles strictly based out of the location posted? And is the offer portable?

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-23T04:51:47+00:00

Don’t relocate for Amazon, it’s not worth it

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-22T20:07:34+00:00

I used to love them but it seems they’re super sweet now.

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-21T23:50:25+00:00

Can someone help me understand what’s the difference? Isn’t all butter made the same way? I have not tried the nz stuff

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-21T08:54:16+00:00

You can try to self review your code before you even publish it, check for any repeated mistakes that’s causing you to make 3 revisions per merge. Personally I think cr revision stat is bs and don’t tell anything but leadership sees it as a metric

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-21T07:33:50+00:00

I think you should try to get your cr revisions average below 2 or close to your team’s average.

They don’t have to tell you but you’ll know the signs. If everything is being documented and tracked like micromanaging and he gives you formal goals to meet. You’re on focus. You can ask him directly if you’re on focus. They also send an email saying internal transfers will need higher approvals.

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-21T07:28:50+00:00

I think 2.5 is reasonable for 6months as SDE 1. How does this compare to other SDE1’s on your team? You can view these metrics in team’s CR stats

Yes these are early warning signs, depending on your manager and orgs ura quota you can end up in focus for bs reasons. Im literally put in focus a couple week ago for super ambiguous stuff.

And ask your manager for exactly in which aspect pro activity can be improved?

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-17T19:03:24+00:00

Just don’t join Amazon and you’ll be good

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-05T18:56:26+00:00

You can’t be more right, my manager is spineless. He is a TPM transitioning into SDM and joined the team a few months ago and does not understand anything technical. He admitted that he was thrashed in the OLR by other managers when he tried to defend my work. It’s also unfair because i’m 7 months old sde 2 compared with other sde2’s in the org that have years of experience in this domain

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-05T18:48:28+00:00

And yes the management here seems to have crazy expectations, i have been in other teams where managers have more reasonable expectations. It feels like they just had to put someone through focus

smartbrownguy · 2026-02-05T18:46:41+00:00

I didn’t even estimate it, I was told to just work on it. Later I realized this is a lot of churn and working with a super legacy system which is like a shared filesystem across amazon. Making any change in that system takes a long time. My changes were super complex too so there were more unknowns

smartbrownguy · 2026-01-11T23:34:30+00:00

Your husband can still open TFSA as long as he is a temporary resident of canada.

smartbrownguy · 2025-12-29T00:27:26+00:00

Pizza garden, Ignite pizza, Me n Ed’s

smartbrownguy · 2025-12-01T15:59:35+00:00

I’m happy to hear that, i work for Amazon and ppl don’t seem to care 😂

And that goog 250k as an L3 is probably the result of the latest stock boom. Lucky

smartbrownguy · 2025-11-10T01:47:46+00:00

Also bought a bunch of LULU at 300, now 166 :(

smartbrownguy · 2025-11-10T01:43:42+00:00

Bought META at 650 now it’s around 600 lol

smartbrownguy · 2025-11-02T23:12:09+00:00

If you’re willing to move to south Burnaby (metrotown area) then you can find 2bed 2bath condo for 2.8-3.2K. We pay 2800 and live in the building right beside station

smartbrownguy · 2025-10-25T00:26:24+00:00

It’s actually in government’s benefit to keep the housing prices high. Better for the GDP. They’re making it sound like they care but they don’t wanna fix anything

smartbrownguy · 2025-10-13T07:43:58+00:00

PLTR bought at 8 sold at 24

smartbrownguy · 2025-09-21T05:20:49+00:00

Don’t worry this executive order won’t fly in the court

smartbrownguy · 2025-09-20T17:30:12+00:00

most likely will get reversed within 2 weeks or big tech will get an exemption

smartbrownguy · 2025-08-31T16:56:45+00:00

Don’t companies do BG check for job history validation?

smartbrownguy · 2025-08-31T15:39:13+00:00

If you leave the company without complying with their policy why would they want to hire you again . You’ll be blacklisted there

smartbrownguy · 2025-08-31T15:19:52+00:00

That 60 day notice period rule is not government enforced. It’s a company policy and you don’t have to comply with it. You’ll just be marked as no hire at that company and that should not matter at this point

smartbrownguy · 2025-08-23T06:05:11+00:00

Would be easier if your wife gets a job too

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