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by msg 3358 days ago
I would ask about how long people have worked on that team, how many have come on and left in the last year, and how many headcount they are getting in OP1.

This will tell you a lot about whether this team is growing and successful, stagnant, or on fire.

Getting paged a lot is a hallmark of teams you don't want to be on, but in the last couple of years, Amazon has instituted policies that make it easier to internally transfer (no strict time limit on how long you have to stay with a team).

Getting paged is sort of a proxy for the real thing you want to know: how many people are voting with their feet.

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Check the policy again. As of 2017-04-01 (for reals) there are effectively no restrictions on internal transfers. Including "performance" restrictions.