Working at Amazon vs Google

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Sharing my experience working at amazon and google as a software engineer.
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Комментарии • 43

  • @moshmosh26
    @moshmosh26 11 месяцев назад +31

    Sound like google earned their reputation rightfully.
    I would rather work for them at half the salary rather than working in the sweatshops of amazon

  • @goodstuff5666
    @goodstuff5666 4 месяца назад +13

    I'm science manger at Amazon, we have been forced to fire people to meet >6%. These number was not the percentage of putting people to focus, it's the number to let people go, e.g., I need to fire at least one people out of 10 people at my team every two quarters or even one quarter if there is new instruction from "leaders". There is very little which I can do. We also need to rank the team members performance every month to decide who will be put to focus. When something bad happen, the senior leadership willl definitely find one lower level manage or engineer to take the blame. The culture is just so toxic. Thinking about twice before you joined the company. I also plan to record one video related with this when I quit.

    • @dymondlyfe1603
      @dymondlyfe1603 3 месяца назад +4

      Can confirm. This happened to me Q1 24. 9 years at AMZ, put on PIP, but chose to leave. My role taken over by 8 others.
      If you want to work at AMZ stay for the experience, don't overspend on rent/expenses while there, and always be on lookout for next job!

  • @_____case
    @_____case 9 месяцев назад +9

    I worked at Amazon for less than a year. They staffed my entire team with new hires led by a manager who was spread too thin and a TL who was a company veteran but yelled in meetings on multiple occasions and in my opinion didn't really give us proper technical direction.

  • @epotnwarlock
    @epotnwarlock 11 месяцев назад +43

    i don't care what the pay is, I'm not working "on-call"

    • @nbee7125
      @nbee7125 3 месяца назад +2

      25 million a day?

    • @aznstride4325
      @aznstride4325 2 месяца назад +3

      100 billion dollar salary?

    • @mar-17905
      @mar-17905 9 дней назад

      These guys throwing out salaries most people will never get. Being a C-Suite executive is different. You have an army of employees to be your on call indentured servants. That’s how most modern companies work. People be the on-caller and not the on-called. These other fellows missed the crucial lesson. 😂😂😂

  • @chenlim2165
    @chenlim2165 9 месяцев назад +13

    “Was Google cool? Yes. Was Amazon cool? Weeelll….” LOL 😂

  • @gradientO
    @gradientO 11 месяцев назад +30

    That explains why we see a lot of people with less than 1 yr exp in Amazon

    • @matthewmcmillian6417
      @matthewmcmillian6417 9 месяцев назад

      (Disclaimer, currently a SDE @ AWS) I've worked at both AWS and Amazon. I've been fortunate that the teams I've been on have been awesome with a bunch of ambitious, motivated, genuine, and kind people. The working environment on my teams has been incredibly friendly, and does not match up to what I've seen online about Amazon. However, to put it lightly, I've also seen from a far other parts of the company that seem like places I would not want to work at.
      For those considering Amazon, its an awesome place to be, but the hidden secret nobody tells you is that you need to be realistic about what you want to get out of the work, and the work environment you want to be in. In my experience, it's a challenging environment to say the least; if you don't find something that is the right fit or come in with the wrong expectations it can be uncomfortable. Also, Amazon is a MASSIVE company with many different teams and products. Some teams have it tough, some teams have it easy, some teams are working on groundbreaking tech, and some teams are in perma KTLO. There are an insane amount of products and cultures that make up the company, which makes it pretty unique IMO. You can move from one org to another and have completely different experiences.
      Given that there are so many different combinations of experiences (product, team, management, etc), my own advice is you need to interview the organization as they are interviewing you to determine if their work environment is right for you. Otherwise, (and this is generally true for any company), you might sign up for something that is not what you want / does not fit you. If you don't find something that fits you, that's OK! Every company has a unique work culture. You might need to look elsewhere for something that satisfies your career goals.

  • @mikkeljensen1603
    @mikkeljensen1603 Месяц назад +5

    Surprised that google cloud is so bad compared to AWS when the quality of work is higher. guess they just work on the wrong things.

    • @Ghosty716
      @Ghosty716 19 дней назад

      I haven't used Google cloud, but I think aws just has a ton of services. And they possibly have a lot more devs on their cloud alone, as Aws is sort of its own company with its own office in my country.

    • @imtryinghere1
      @imtryinghere1 17 дней назад

      Gmail spam filters rule the world.

  • @ZZPiranhaZZ
    @ZZPiranhaZZ 8 месяцев назад +2

    I work at Amazon, but not in the US. The culture here is really good barring all the issues that are occurring because of the state of the industry. The oncall in my country is only during the work day, so you're not expected to dial in to a call at 2am like a lot of other teams overseas. I agree that a lot of manual work exists, but I found success in automating a lot of it and it was one of the things that led to a promotion within about a year for me. The issue is that the only 2 big tech companies we have here are Google and Amazon, and Google will have maybe 2-3 open mid level engineering positions over the entire year, to work on managing legacy software rather than shipping new stuff.

  • @tune6000
    @tune6000 11 месяцев назад +9

    I like amazon and learned a lot during my internship there but would probably be fairly stressful as a fte there

    • @Despot-dm3id
      @Despot-dm3id 7 месяцев назад +1

      Can you tell me the eligibility for internship at Amazon, I'm studying 2nd year bca data science and I wanna internship at Amazon

    • @tune6000
      @tune6000 7 месяцев назад

      @@Despot-dm3id idk bruh google it

    • @adamprieto121
      @adamprieto121 2 месяца назад

      ⁠​⁠@@Despot-dm3id
      Current Amazon intern here. Basically it’s just luck of draw - there are a ton of non US citizens working for Amazon, but if you’re lucky enough to get past the interviews and selection process, they’ll make you an offer.

    • @anshuapoorva9866
      @anshuapoorva9866 Месяц назад

      Yes I also agree. You get to work on real stuff. Code goes to prod

  • @aznstride4325
    @aznstride4325 2 месяца назад +4

    You been there for 1 months bro. You don’t know enough to judge that “on-call” is bad.
    First off, it’s team-dependent. Some teams rarely have anything for on-call perhaps because it’s mostly research-focused or some other reason.
    On-call just means you’re working on tickets during work hours and not “sprint work”. And after hours, yo have a pager and you get paged when an alarm goes off because one of your team’s app is F”ing up. If you understand how everything works; you can fix that issue or better yet, identify the bug and patch it so it doesn’t alarm again for example.
    Having software engineers as on-call is an incentive for teams to code their apps properly without bugs so it rarely fails and so it doesn’t page them in the middle of the night

  • @business_central
    @business_central 11 месяцев назад

    love these videos

  • @me0101001000
    @me0101001000 11 месяцев назад +20

    This is going to sound super niche, and I don't know how big of an audience you have for this is, but would you ever consider doing content on scientific programming?
    I'm a PhD student working in the intersections of materials science, chemical engineering, electrochemistry, and molecular physics. More and more of the work I'm doing is requiring building and running code to simulate physical and chemical systems, and while it doesn't pay as well as these Fortune 500 tech jobs, it does contribute directly to developing better solutions for problems in structural materials, energy, and environmental rehabilitation. Oh, also, we still use Fortran.

    • @ds-wu5eu
      @ds-wu5eu 2 месяца назад +2

      This is a really odd question. Because the amount of information needed to be able to competently do chem programming requires at least a bachelors if not a masters in chem.
      Probably won’t see that here

  • @john_youtube
    @john_youtube 11 месяцев назад +2

    i've got horror stories about amazon lol, what an awful time
    made a good stack though

  • @s8x.
    @s8x. 4 месяца назад

    i ain’t got sh*t to do outside so let me work whenever wherever

  • @huhuboss8274
    @huhuboss8274 11 месяцев назад +4

    What does it mean to work "on call"?

    • @Chooseyouruniquehandlebya
      @Chooseyouruniquehandlebya 11 месяцев назад +9

      If theres a production issue youll get a call

    • @cloudrivas2783
      @cloudrivas2783 10 месяцев назад +5

      You're supposed to handle tickets for your team and be available 24/7 in case something breaks at 2am. This allows other team members to focus on actually building things. This role is rotated every week.

    • @huhuboss8274
      @huhuboss8274 10 месяцев назад

      @@cloudrivas2783 thank you

  • @princeofpersia41046
    @princeofpersia41046 7 месяцев назад +5

    Google stock is shit though. Amazon stock and growth forecast outshines Google big time. Work culture is shitty but great for people early on in their career. You learn a lot more than a google engineer.

  • @s8x.
    @s8x. 4 месяца назад

    what’s on call

  • @stevenliao7168
    @stevenliao7168 7 месяцев назад +2

    Amazon shit!!!!!

  • @garvitbhatia8395
    @garvitbhatia8395 11 месяцев назад

    First comment !!

  • @CodeChallengee
    @CodeChallengee 11 месяцев назад +10

    Bro why you look Indian and sound like foreign person 😅

    • @rheemk1980
      @rheemk1980 11 месяцев назад +7

      I thought he was white before seeing his face

    • @dragosmorozan1841
      @dragosmorozan1841 11 месяцев назад +21

      Because he is, but was born in US

    • @recursion.
      @recursion. 11 месяцев назад

      Are you ignorant or an illiterate?

  • @denisa.637
    @denisa.637 6 дней назад

    both are woke companies after all.