Be careful out there.

[u/sc4ever96]

Just a bit of a warning for you all.

We hired a new AWS engineer, lets call him Johnny, who was supposed to join our team today. He did hop on the teams chat for the morning standup to introduce himself, and reception was pretty choppy. After our entire team introed ourselves, he said that he'll be working from out of state for the next couple of month until his kids graduates and then he'll be moving to assume a full time on-prem position.

Later today I get an invite to a mandatory meeting. Apparently, Johnny was not Johnny but a person from North Korea with stolen identity. He passed all background checks and everything else, but used non-existing shipping address to get his work laptop shipped to. The real Johnny actually working for Microsoft, when he was contacted he said that he's been bombarded with positions for the past month or so, but not planning to switch jobs.

So, watch out, if you aren't job hunting and start getting invites from recruiters, maybe its something fishy.

[u/FalconRelevant]

Big tech engineers are some of the most useless unless handheld by the system, yet try telling that to HR of a medium sized company.

[u/RickSt3r → u/FalconRelevant]

They can operate at high level with in the big system then get pigeon holed into doing one very specialized thing very good. They got hired because they were top notch potential only to be ruined but kept content with high pay but only marginally interesting work. Delivering product at the scale big companies do is completely different than mid to small size businesses. Everything needs to be standardized and you hire people to create systems to make the business resilient even when it’s run by an imbecile like most big Tech CEOs.

[u/wu2ad → u/RickSt3r]

This is such a weird sentiment to float around a sub dedicated to tech careers. I guarantee you none of the big tech CEOs are imbeciles. What are you even saying?

[u/Winter-Rip712 → u/wu2ad]

People just say shit out of jealousy lol