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> Neutral: if you disagree, commit and fail it becomes a very public failure.

I don't understand this part - if you publicly disagree with a decision, and then that decision results in failure, weren't you just proved right? Or does it just get assumed that the failure was your fault due to you not committing sufficiently?




Current Amazon engineer.

Been with the company 3 years and this has happened to me once.

I agree with op. I disagreed but committed in an issue I saw. It soon turned out to be a production issue for a different team, as I had correctly called out and warned about...

I got called out in 1 on 1 by my senior manager for not having enough backbone.


Sorry - did your manager want you to have disagreed more strongly, and not committed?




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