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Yeah, that's what I actually do. I didn't want to scare the non-Americans even more than they already are with our insurance :D Note I didn't even get into IRAs, 401k, Megabackdoor…

I own a 1500 sq ft townhouse that I bought in 2017 for $480K with $80k down (all from RSUs, which if I had kept in AMZN would be worth... a lot more). My mortgage (refi'd in 2019) …

I'm in Seattle so the situation is a bit better than the valley. But here's a breakdown: L6 at Amazon, single, no kids: ~$400K TC $33,333 per month gross About $100K in federal tax…

I do. I'm a 2-year-in-a-row top tier rated senior SDE. I work 8:30 to 5:30 every day. If I work later it's because I'm working on something interesting to me personally and it's my…

The funny part about this is that it's an "improvement" over the old policy from ~pre-2017 (IIRC): - No working on personal games whatsoever. Full Stop. There's been plenty of comp…

People need to get out of these terrible orgs. In mine, I'd estimate >50% get to 5. The average tenure is a lot lower because the org has grown from ~15 to ~70 people in the past 5…

You can tell it's bullshit because no one calls them orange badges unless it's their 2nd week on the job. They're yellow badges. Not to be confused with vendor badges, which are al…

The two are complimentary. Engineers can't do anything without the fundamental insights scientists provide. But scientists don't have the practical experience of writing end produc…

The thing is in the US, generally the more you make the lower your insurance costs are. I made ~$300k last year at a FAANG (Sr. engineer), and my healthcare costs were: $29/month i…

Amazon has a direct competitor already: https://aws.amazon.com/chime

That's not entirely true. Plenty of retail items are sold on consignment.

Spigen is a completely legit brand.

>When a grocery store puts something on it's shelves, the store itself bought it from the manufacturer. They have already made their money. On Amazon, manufacturers don't make mone…

Go look at the last quarterly filing. https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-detail... Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel…

This is simply 100% false. What do you think the 500,000 employees of Amazon are doing if not working in a warehouse? They're not programming.

>I'd welcome an account suspend instead of bill shock. The big question here is what to do with stateful data. Would you accept an immediate deletion of all of your S3 data? RDS in…