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I’m not sure these platforms provide voice or community vs providing an avenue for those with large pockets to shape and influence opinions, on a far more personal level than befor…

I mean - all the polls show he is behind the Democrats, including from Fox News, and so I am not sure where you got the notion that impeachment is the only way they can “defeat him…

Can’t see the article (paywall), but this isn’t a surprise. You have Democrat candidates open to or advocating for the notion of increasing taxes on the elite classes. For the rich…

Is this the right way to hire? Not saying it’s wrong but I’ve taken a different approach which has generally worked out. Even if I was hiring for a specific role (front end), I car…

I’m not sure what’s the point of your comment. As an American I’m also lucky that my country isn’t facing the issues innocent people in Syria, Iraq, etc face being caught in a civi…

Using personal time to work for my employer instead of investing it in myself.

Recommendation systems.

At Google or FB you’d earn upwards of 300-400K in a senior role. I don’t think being on the shiny stuff t your previous company will help unless you’re known in the industry, as in…

Somewhere between $150-160K. My salary is $160K (that’s the max your salary can be at Amazon). The rest of my compensation (remaining ~$160k) is in restricted stock unit vests. I s…

These numbers are self reported so I wouldn’t index on them that much - most numbers I see there for Amazon are on the higher end and give the appearance the higher end of the scal…

$320K at Amazon this year. I’m 32 and have been here 7 years.

You just wrote that I’m abusing customers and then say it’s not an attack. S3 is blob storage. Dynamo is a key value store with support for additional indexes. Neither technologies…

Salaries are capped at $160 but salaries are a part of your total comp. Most of my compensation comes from stock not salary, and my salary is maxed.

You didn’t answer my question and deflected, only responding with personal attacks. Nice. I still think that your notion of intentional vendor lock in is misinformed at best and po…

Amazons internal organizations all have slightly different culture, although there’s a core set of company values (Leadership Principles) that keep us bounded together. Within Amaz…

401K match is garbage but salaries are decent. I’d say we’ve gotten far more competitive in pay, and that’s not even counting the crazy stock appreciation over the past several yea…

How so? Op is correct - you shouldn’t be using the console to actively manage your infrastructure. The consoles primary purpose is to let you quickly spin up resources while you ex…

What’s your problem domain? You shouldn’t be locked into AWS. No offense, but sounds like bad design or more generally, you or your engineers don’t know what they’re doing.

I work at Amazon. Ellisons assessment is trash meant to fool maybe Wall Street analysts, but as an engineer, his claims are laughable. In reality, database migrations are hard. Rem…

You might hate the console or CLI tools, but people at Amazon have real data telling them the CX is good enough and their capital would be better spent investing in other features.…

I mean - I haven’t worked at any other large tech company so I don’t have any data point to make that claim.

I’m an engineer now at Amazon. I’ve been here 7 years. 5 years ago, our culture was far more toxic. More recently, some orgs are horrible places to work and others are much better.…

Can’t see the article (pay wall). Does it speak to artificial sweeteners? How bad are the two splendas I put in my coffee everyday?

I lived in Little Rock for high school and Norman, OK for college. How does KS compare? Shit you could not pay me enough to go back to Oklahoma or Arkansas.

In the grand scheme of things, even $200K is not a lot of money. I made record this year (~$320K), but I end up saving it all. Can I afford to buy a home? Absolutely. Will I buy a …