The poor kids can’t even afford coal and fall through the cracks.

Non-engineering roles I think.

IIRC levels correspond to all employees across the company.

Yeah it’s weird and I don’t get it either.

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.

Maybe he want to write damn login page himself.

Fair. Backup was a bad term here.

My favorite was an abstract class that called 3 levels in to other classes that then called another implementation of said abstract class.

And people wonder why no one on our team ever got shit done.

More like C Level people that force devs to make this crap

Sorry can’t hear you as AI brrs over hiring applications and performance reviews

They are all various AWS services

You’re joking but yes this does actually happen lol

Also requires AWS to do the same thing which they sometimes don’t …

Like I don’t hate all AI coding but there are legit questions about using it in GPL projects.

Also “hey ChatGPT said this works but fuck if I know” is a big no no when coding. You still own what you ship and need to understand what you’re actually pushing.

Is the goal to make branch commands that match a specific song? That’s be fun.

git rebase acura

You could work for a startup that still pays a livable wage so you don’t have to do something this reckless. That is an option.

This seems dangerous for both the codebase and the cars around them.

I appreciate the click save

Reminds me of something I saw in the wild. Where a coworker had some pandas code that was tracking the cumulative amount of capacity across various fleets.

Which of course the variable had to be “cumCapacity”.

You can add activesupport (I think that’s it) to get it if you don’t want to use all of rails.