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Citation(s) needed. They specifically work (publicly and privately) to undermine local taxes, enforce non-competes/NDAs, capital gains, income taxes, etc. Then they do small invest…

You are correct. They ABSOLUTELY monitor customer spend usage, without using one iota of personally identifiable information.

You can't (and they don't promise) encryption such that AWS can't see everything, if they were in fact malicious. This is true of every cloud. That said, it's not illegal for them …

So, then your answer is never deprecate?

Ever? What if they had a 10 year deprecation policy?

I think this is disingenuous. AWS keeps something running forever, that's true, but in what state? https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121711 (We were well aware of …

And a huge ad business they support. Oh, they didn't tell you about that?

Amazon makes $3B a year selling ads. You think they're just guessing about personal information? Please. They lay cookies everywhere (including off site) to target you properly.

It's funny you say the second paragraph - it feels like it directly contrasts the first (OK Google was first by a good margin).

I'm a highly biased former Amazonian. I was expecting some real wisdom in this story, but I don't think this qualifies him as a technical leader in any way. I don't even think this…

You get it.

You did not say roles were increasing at 50% per year as an example - that was your stated fact. I'm saying unless they had 10 employees in 2000 (wrong) or only started the 50% hir…

Microsoft, Google (Seattle), Century Link, Group On, Moz, Redfin, Porch, Chef, White Pages... to name a few. It's almost impossible to throw a dart at this list and not hit at leas…

To be clear (I realize it may have seemed worse than it was): Day 1: 1000 employees Day 365: 500 employees Day 730: 200 employees.

> Your comment on "retention" is factually incorrect. I disagree. > First the number of Amazon hires in "tech roles" increases by ~50% per year. i.e., in year 1 there are 1,000 SDE…

We'll agree to disagree. Tension is good, when that's all it's used for. When it is specifically used to tear people down (either with a purpose, or just for vindictiveness), I thi…

I admit, I lied in the previous comment. In the previous comment, I was worried that people would know who I was if I had said where I worked (what groups and how long). The truth …

I disagree. There are many leadership principles which are contradictory either in part or in whole (e.g. Dive Deep vs. Bias for Action; Insist on the Highest Standards vs. Invent …

Absolutely, if you stayed, the numbers definitely add up to what you see here. However, because the attrition was so high, you were not likely to stick around to get a bonus to mak…

When I was there, managers were guided to PIP (performance improvement plan) to make these numbers. Whether that meant grinding people into the ground, natural attrition, or making…

I'm a former Amazonian. Since you asked my opinion, I'll give it. It's a truly horrible place to work and I would never ask my worst enemy to go work there. Engenders the worst in …

I won't go on about the work quality at Amazon, there are plenty of other places to read about that. It _is_ important to note that the average retention at Amazon (even for excell…

I have an etiquette question. We're allowed to put positive comments on jobs listed here, why are we not allowed to critique jobs on here?

Disclaimer: I am a former Amazon employee. I worked there for exactly a year. I assume I was doing well, I was offered increase bonus and base after my initial year. This response …