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Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities

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Re: Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities

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Post by alistairSH »

ansgri wrote: post #79
chrisseaton wrote: post #75

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If you're paid a significantly large salary then you are 'exempt' overtime and they can ask you to be available at any time. The expectation is that you're being paid as a professional to achieve something, not to clock-in and clock-out. If you want to work hours only with formal overtime you can get a job that's paid less and paid hourly so that you are eligible for overtime, or you can ask for extra compensation an…

But what would they actually do if you’d say that you’ve been on call enough already, not going to continue for a week or two? sure they wouldn’t terminate you, that’d be too expensive for a skilled employee of which there is rumored to be a great shortage. American work culture seems very strange.

While they might not terminate you, they have other means of retaliation - reducing scope of work, assigning "good" projects to other employees, generally making work life miserable, with he goal of driving you out (and making an example of you - better be a good little wage slave - the executive team and major stockholders need to buy another yacht).

Re: Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities

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Post by paganel »

dextralt wrote: post #109
paganel wrote: post #104

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I'm just stating the fact that the current societal status quo is such that no black person is part of the executive-team of one of the first biggest three companies in the world and that the women that are part of said team have been put in positions that have been usually associated with women, the positions usually associated with men are occupied only by, well, men. I personally believe that all men and women are…

I suppose you have similar concerns about men occupying the overwhelming majority of physically taxing and hazardous jobs, correct? Obviously, we both know there are no intrinsic differences between men and women, so this is a great injustice that women's representation among miners, construction workers, metalworkers, truckers, heavy machinery operators, fishermen, foresters, waster disposal workers, and so on, is v…

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Re: Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities

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Post by dmit »

Pfhreak wrote: post #22
bakenator wrote: post #7

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I'm just curious, what was your experience trying to develop games in your spare time? Were you told to stop?

There's an explicit company policy about game development that is separate from their open source policy. It, among other things, prevents you from working on a game project with anyone else.

Wow. They say that policies are organizational scar tissue. I'd love to see the blow that inflicted this particular wound.

Re: Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities

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Post by chillydawg »

lowiqengineer wrote: post #88
hamburglar wrote: post #86

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Honestly, interview around with no expectations if you haven't. You may be surprised at what else is going to be offered. I'm not going to tell you it's necessarily 400k or anything, but the variance is quite high if you're willing to relocate to, say, Seattle. An amazon resume is worth a certain amount of money, and there are other companies that will offer you things you enjoy working on too.

I’ve tried, but haven’t gotten interviews from the companies I’m interested in. I did get a offer from a hedge fund, but it was a severe lowball (50-70% of typical offers) probably due to my interview performance.

If it was a good hedge fund, they won't offer anyone they don't rate. If they offered you because they think you're mediocre and can get you cheap - do not work for them, they're charlatans.

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Post by tinyhouse »

whateveracct wrote: post #13
nickbauman wrote: post #8

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Average tenure of an Amazon employee on the tech side is something like a year or so.

I'd say it's more around 2 thanks to their typical 2-year vesting cliff and one-year clawback on bonuses (which weighs the minimum towards 1-year and average further out). But yeah it's short.

It also depends on the share price. If the stock goes up, like it did in the last few years, then people keep getting "free" raises and stick around.

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Post by lonelappde »

mantap wrote: post #101
Pfhreak wrote: post #24

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Search inside for the 'Game Development Policy', it's separate from the intellectual property commitment. Reasoning is likely from Amazon Games Studios? I think there may be a concern that someone at Amazon might make the next flappy bird or Minecraft and Amazon couldn't capitalize on it.

If it's in your own free time on your own hardware why would Amazon be able to capitalize on it? Employees are not slaves.

Noncompete agreements are legal in many places outside California

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Post by [deleted] »

heymijo wrote: post #29
lowiqengineer wrote: post #14

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I've been rejected at Google and Facebook and most of HN doesn't think my total compensation is all that impressive, so, I probably don't have many options to be real with you.

> my goal is to make ~$250k a year as fast as possible. To do so at my current company would take at least 3 years and 2 promotions Hi, I don't want to dunk on you, but I would truly encourage you to gain some perspective on just how myopic a view this is. (I couldn't reply to your comment below where you said this)

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Post by dextralt »

paganel wrote: post #112
dextralt wrote: post #109

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I suppose you have similar concerns about men occupying the overwhelming majority of physically taxing and hazardous jobs, correct? Obviously, we both know there are no intrinsic differences between men and women, so this is a great injustice that women's representation among miners, construction workers, metalworkers, truckers, heavy machinery operators, fishermen, foresters, waster disposal workers, and so on, is v…

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Post by manojlds »

poutrathor wrote: post #95
OGWhales wrote: post #51

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Why games though? I don’t see any obvious reasons why they would care.

I see some. Top of my head : Games development are limitless in scope and technical complexity and very passion driven. So, a developer could spend countless hours each night improving his game. Next day, all the team has is a tired developer, drinking coffee and unable to code straight or analyse issues without missing subtleties. Opening a wordpress for your mom and her gardening hobby is a significantly less time…

In the early days of Amazon, Bezos rejected bus passes for employees stating bus passes encourage people to leave work to a a timetable and he would prefer them to be at office and leave only when they can.

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Post by adrr »

Pfhreak wrote: post #22
bakenator wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just curious, what was your experience trying to develop games in your spare time? Were you told to stop?

There's an explicit company policy about game development that is separate from their open source policy. It, among other things, prevents you from working on a game project with anyone else.

This why I won't leave California. Employers can't tell me what i do in my spare time and can't sue me over a "non compete" if I leave.
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