GIC reviews

The below Linkedin post from an Amazon employee perfectly summed up GIC's make-shit-up for promotions culture: "Rewrote a perfectly good microservice just for my SDE3 promotion at Amazon. The legacy Java service was running fine for 5 years. Zero latency issues, minimal maintenance. But I needed “Scope” and “Complexity” to justify my move from L5 to L6. So, I wrote a 20-page design doc arguing that we needed to “modernize the stack” by rewriting the whole thing in Go with a complex microservices architecture. Wasted 4 quarters of engineering time and 3 other engineers’ lives. The new system is actually slower and costs 2x more in compute, but the launch email looked “strategic” enough to get my packet approved. I officially got the promo last week. Today, I accepted an internal transfer to a chill Core Infra team. The memory leak in the new service usually hits around 2 AM, and I won’t be on call. Good luck to the new grad taking over. TC $550k."

lack of clear management direction, often causing everyone to be confused. Leaders sometimes lack leadership, guidance and a clear and concise steer which often leads to wasted work and efforts.