[commandersaki]

Yes, I was at Amazon for a total of 8 months. I found the environment, tooling, and systems way too bloody complicated. Brought down some systems when doing a task because I put insufficient data in a config file. But I think what bothered me the most was that I wasn’t really assigned any tasks for the first 6 months and didn’t really understand what the team was working on. Definitely one of the lowest points in my life. I don’t think it was imposter syndrome though, I just think I wasn’t a good fit - hence why I left.

[SnorkelTan]

Were you Senior? I look at those situations as eat what you kill. Like I would ask my manager to put me in touch with arch or up level engineers to tell me where the focus is and find tickets to work on myself.

[commandersaki]

Yeah. I kept telling my manager and other team members I wanted to do some work. I also was clear that I didn't understand a lot of the tooling and systems primarily because I wasn't interacting with them, because I wasn't assigned any work (full circle). Over months nothing really came of this until at about 6 months later. However I participated in all the team meetings like scrum poker estimating tickets I had no idea about because I hadn't interacted with systems or software. Whether I was responsible for my own situation is debatable, but you bet if I've been idle for 6 months and not really getting adequate training that I'm definitely going to start looking for a new job. I've worked at companies of all sizes and never had this situation before and after, and at the time I was in Amazon I had been in the industry for more than a decade.