“Don't ever, for any reason, do anything for anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter where. Or who, or who you are with, or where you are going or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever.”
To not work at Amazon
Unless you're at another FAANG, useless advice.
Amazon has bad WLB, demands a lot from it's employees and has culture issues, but only compared to other FAANGs. No local Indian company or even Indian branches of MNCs is going to give you the same standards of code reviews, deployment and security best practices, access to a treasure trove of internal videos and documents by senior engineers and a vast set of platform tools to build software.
So yea, you can sit pretty reading Blind about Amazon reputation, but if you're in India and not in another comparable FAANG, you're very mistaken.
Lmao sure 🙄
There are two ways to grow in an organisation - 'You either lick ass or you kick ass'. Choose wisely. - My first manager
Two of them actually -
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‘Make your daily tasks obsolete’. What they meant was do what is required for a couple of months, and identify things you can and automate them. This gives you time and mental space to do better work and work that gets your recognised.
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Turn up. Always turn up no matter how bad. Turning up is half the job.
Only non tech folks can hard relate
To work at a startup at early stage of career
Probably, the best till date has to be "If you are not allowed a seat at the table, go build your own table till everyone wants to be the one joining you"
Read it here on another post- take a chance on yourself.

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