Software Engineering Promotion Story

software engineering in one paragraph 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 need 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.

Скриншот поста с сатирическим рассказом о разработчике, который переписал исправный Java-микросервис на сложную архитектуру Go ради повышения до SDE3 в Amazon. Новая система стала медленнее и дороже, но продвижение одобрили благодаря «стратегическому» виду проекта. Шутка высмеивает корпоративную карьерную мотивацию, архитектурный оверхед и перекладывание последствий на нового сотрудника.

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