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>After 2 day delivery became 5 day delivery Where do you live? I hear this repeated on HN a lot, but every person I know IRL doesn't have this problem (ie family spread across mult…

Amazon Basics are cheap and low quality, but they're at least curated. Amazon doesn't just slap their brand on any random shit, so you at least know that your phone charger will me…

>back-weighting the vesting schedule is perfectly constructed to make people endure abuse in the workplace. Amazon's work culture is toxic in a lot of ways and this RTO is idiotic,…

Despite the impression that Amazon is a hellplace, it remains one of the most desired places in the world for software engineers to work, so being "worse than Amazon" isn't saying …

>A good agile process will not have an ironclad upfront definition of what is to be delivered in a large project. "what is to be delivered" does not have to be a rigid definition o…

Nobody said anything about waterfall. A good agile process can and should have all of the things the parent commenter listed. If you eschew those things by using the "well we're ag…

Some numbers to put this into perspective: A $500 bonus for one month of full time 40/hr/week work comes out to ~$3.20/hr "raise" for the month of June. Amazon minimum pay is $15/h…

An NDA is practically unenforceable in this situation, which is the entire point a noncompete is a thing. Who is going to snitch on them for revealing AWS secrets to Google and vio…

Agreed. I'm generally uncomfortable with noncompetes and especially with Amazon's practice of making every employee sign one. Unless it's a really special case where a team is work…

Yea, that's something else I forgot to mention. I chalk it up to OP possibly being inexperienced/naive (I think this was his first job out of college), but I have worked with a lot…

I fear OP may have misunderstood how the signing bonus works and it seems to have caused him undue stress. I've interviewed at Amazon and had a lot of conversations about compensat…

I can't really comment on your interview experiences except to say: that sucks. I know firsthand (unemployed for a long time and had a really long personal struggle similar to your…

It isn't all grim! His granddaughter is successful porn star Brandi Love.

When did you join the Austin office? I'm guessing things changed over time. When I visited there definitely was not a security person (not for the building nor for the Cloudflare s…

That’s good to hear! I edited my original comment to say that this was over a year ago and was still when the Austin office was relatively new so perhaps it was just the effects of…

One of the folks I talked to while there was one of the senior security team members, and I mentioned it to him during the interview but felt like it was brushed off (honestly that…

It’s always nice reading about a company taking security seriously, and Cloudflare has some decent write ups for their hardware/software security, but I sure wish they would take o…

At a broader level, federally protected speech in the US isn't absolute; the Supreme Court has ruled a number of times that restrictions can be placed on organizing protests, such …

Random speech doesn't become any less random just because it is federally protected. On the contrary, it actually becomes less federally protected if it is random, because federal …

How large is your company, in terms of number of people? I’m talking about companies with hundreds of thousands of managed identities/employees. OIM is typically the only IdM softw…

So I brought up OIM because I have some personal experience with it and similar software. It’s main selling point is that it is extremely performing and scalabale, and it is so big…

In the security space I do have experience with many customers who are looking into greenfield implementations of stuff like Oracle Identity Manager.

From what I see at my consulting clients, the main areas where Oracle competes aren’t with Azure. The Oracle Cloud isn’t about spinning up VMs or web servers (though yes they do ha…