> It says he “asked” staff to attend the meeting
replyBeing "asked" by your boss to attend an optional meeting is pretty close to being required, it's just got a little anti-friction coating on it.
That really isn’t the culture at Amazon. There are all-team meetings that happen all the time, and every now and then there is a reminder that “hey we’re gonna be talking about an interesting topic so you might want to join”, but it is certainly not a mandate or expectation that everyone will join.
replyDifferent companies have different cultures. Weird that people can’t grok this.
"If you could just go ahead and attend that meeting, that would be greaaaaaaat..."
reply"Did ya get the memo... about that meeting? I'll just have my secretary forward you another copy of that memo, OK? Yeaaaaaaah..."
Exactly. It's just West coast passive aggressive managerial behavior.
replyYour characterization of the event as a simple reminder to follow established best practices is directly contradicted by the briefing note of the meeting, which specifically mentions a lack of best practices related to AI. Which makes me skeptical of your assessment of the situation in general.
reply> Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established”.
> senior engineers have always been required to sign off on changes from junior engineers.
replydefinitely a team by team question. if it was required it would be a crux rule that the code review isnt approved without an l6 approver.
It’s part of the change management process that all code is reviewed. This is needed as per several different compliance agreements. What’s probably happened is poor peer reviews from other junior engineers gets missed. That’s a lot of code reviews to send upstream.
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