Link is down due to Github's rate limiting. Mirror anyone?
My Amazon Burnout Experience
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#22I get "Whoa there! You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism. Please wait a few minutes before you try again." When trying to visit the page. Can anyone post it in the comments?
Same, gists are rate limited?
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#23I get "Whoa there! You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism. Please wait a few minutes before you try again." When trying to visit the page. Can anyone post it in the comments?
Same. I guess sudden inflow of traffic triggered it. Considering it's on front page of HN on a sensitive/popular topic, I'm convinced.
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#24I get "Whoa there! You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism. Please wait a few minutes before you try again." When trying to visit the page. Can anyone post it in the comments?
Me too, luckily it's in google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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#25I get "Whoa there! You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism. Please wait a few minutes before you try again." When trying to visit the page. Can anyone post it in the comments?
me too
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#26It seems obvious that this person is aware they don't work well with others, and actively refuses to try to do better -- while writing a self-aggrandizing story about how he is both the smartest person in the room and most everyone around him was an idiot. He seems to believe there was no one else smart at Amazon either, and all projects that 'got in his way' were created my simple minded peons. This type of retrospective naiveté smacks of narcissism.
I'm not saying Amazon is a great place to work -- but its clear this person isn't a great person to work with.
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#27Good grief, this is the first time I've seen Github rate limit anything.
Glad it wasn't just me. For a minute there I thought that I had done something to get rate limited personally.
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#28I get "Whoa there! You have triggered an abuse detection mechanism. Please wait a few minutes before you try again." When trying to visit the page. Can anyone post it in the comments?
Me too, luckily it's in google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
Thank you!
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#29"Amazon hires intelligent people, and they retain the sociopaths" That is a damning statement that unfortunately has the ring of truth to me.
To me this also rings of "I'm too morally superior to engage in corporate politics."
Suck it up and kiss ass, suppress information when necessary, make allegiances, and whatever else is if you want to move up in that structure.
If all this is beneath you, then time to work for yourself.
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#30"Amazon hires intelligent people, and they retain the sociopaths" That is a damning statement that unfortunately has the ring of truth to me.
Sounds just like the world of large law firms, actually. They hire top people from top schools, most burn out within 2-3 years and leave, occasionally someone is sociopathic enough to make it to about year 7 where they're made partner. No efforts are made to retain the people, they're just worked crazy hours until they either crack or, rarely, make partner.
Even the incentives are kind of the same: Great pay and looks great on a resume. The latter allows one to move over to things with much more reasonable hours if desires, albeit for lower (but still very decent) pay. Not sure how interesting the work is for an entry level position at Amazon, but I can say at large firms, the work for first years is mind-numbing and useless, basically reviewing documents for minor things.