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Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by throwaway6497 »

ryanobjc wrote: post #17
throwaway6497 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a second, a thought crossed my mind that Amazon is actively trying to change its external perception after the NY times article and is trying to cozy up to developers. I found this on Glassdoor. Apparently, it will take a long time for them to make their culture less toxic. ===From Glassdoor=== Cons ==== The management process is abusive, and I'm currently a manager. I've seen too much "behind the wall" and hate…

amazon management is more likely to optimize for optics than actually fix the "problem". In bezos's mind the problem is the NYT article and the external reputation. The work culture isnt an accident nor is it intended to be eventually fixed. in my tenure at Amazon, I went from getting a 2 and PIP, then to a 4, then having my promotion held up because my VP didnt like me. Finally when I left to Google they offered SDE…

You know what I find unbelieveable! In spite of several people calling out that Amazon doesn't officially offer paternity leaves and that it sucks, Amazon leadership is simply doing nothing about it. Google/FB/Linkedin/Netflix/Microsoft have officially announced 3-unlimited month paternity leaves. It appears Amazon simply doesn't care about employees or the optics in this case. How do they officially justify their stand. We don't offer paternity leaves because - ???. WTF. Really

Update: They started offering 6 week paternity leave since Jan 2016. 20+ weeks is what other companies mentioned seem to offer.

Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by hueving »

eranation wrote: post #19
throwaway6497 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a second, a thought crossed my mind that Amazon is actively trying to change its external perception after the NY times article and is trying to cozy up to developers. I found this on Glassdoor. Apparently, it will take a long time for them to make their culture less toxic. ===From Glassdoor=== Cons ==== The management process is abusive, and I'm currently a manager. I've seen too much "behind the wall" and hate…

I just joined AWS ProServ and I really don't see any of these things. Pretty amazing team and one of the best work life balance I've seen in a tech company so far. I have 4 other friends who work at AWS and all seem very happy so far. I found the glass door comment and it seems to be from an engineering manager. I have a friend who manages one of the AWS products and he seems to be pretty happy. I just joined so I re…

The GP pulled that from glassdoor.

Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by jvolkman »

throwaway6497 wrote: post #21
ryanobjc wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

amazon management is more likely to optimize for optics than actually fix the "problem". In bezos's mind the problem is the NYT article and the external reputation. The work culture isnt an accident nor is it intended to be eventually fixed. in my tenure at Amazon, I went from getting a 2 and PIP, then to a 4, then having my promotion held up because my VP didnt like me. Finally when I left to Google they offered SDE…

You know what I find unbelieveable! In spite of several people calling out that Amazon doesn't officially offer paternity leaves and that it sucks, Amazon leadership is simply doing nothing about it. Google/FB/Linkedin/Netflix/Microsoft have officially announced 3-unlimited month paternity leaves. It appears Amazon simply doesn't care about employees or the optics in this case. How do they officially justify their st…

http://www.bna.com/amazon-expands-parental-n57982063587/

Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by meepmorp »

oh_sigh wrote: post #8
abtinf wrote: post #4

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"Destiny" would also be ungooglable.

Meanwhile, DSSTNE is completely unmemorable, so even if you wanted to google it, you're going to end up typing "amazon destiny machine learning" or something

I don't know about you, but I'm much more likely to be googling a project as I'm already working with it as opposed to for general information purpose. In that context, "DSSTNE [problem keywords]," seems more useful to me.

Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by mindcrime »

ryanobjc wrote: post #18
rdtsc wrote: post #10

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Other one is isomorphic. Anything that sounds sciency or mathy will be adopted. There is no other way ;-)

my new programming language has isomorphic tensors built in as a first class language feature :-)

But is it reactive?

Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by throwaway6497 »

jvolkman wrote: post #23
throwaway6497 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know what I find unbelieveable! In spite of several people calling out that Amazon doesn't officially offer paternity leaves and that it sucks, Amazon leadership is simply doing nothing about it. Google/FB/Linkedin/Netflix/Microsoft have officially announced 3-unlimited month paternity leaves. It appears Amazon simply doesn't care about employees or the optics in this case. How do they officially justify their st…

http://www.bna.com/amazon-expands-parental-n57982063587/

Thanks for pointing me to this. I didn't know they started offering 6 weeks leave regardless of Gender. 6 weeks feels half-hearted though but better than nothing.

Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by [deleted] »

throwaway6497 wrote: post #21
ryanobjc wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

amazon management is more likely to optimize for optics than actually fix the "problem". In bezos's mind the problem is the NYT article and the external reputation. The work culture isnt an accident nor is it intended to be eventually fixed. in my tenure at Amazon, I went from getting a 2 and PIP, then to a 4, then having my promotion held up because my VP didnt like me. Finally when I left to Google they offered SDE…

You know what I find unbelieveable! In spite of several people calling out that Amazon doesn't officially offer paternity leaves and that it sucks, Amazon leadership is simply doing nothing about it. Google/FB/Linkedin/Netflix/Microsoft have officially announced 3-unlimited month paternity leaves. It appears Amazon simply doesn't care about employees or the optics in this case. How do they officially justify their st…

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Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by rdtsc »

ryanobjc wrote: post #18
rdtsc wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other one is isomorphic. Anything that sounds sciency or mathy will be adopted. There is no other way ;-)

my new programming language has isomorphic tensors built in as a first class language feature :-)

Sold!

I'll use it write microservices for my new IoT application.

Re: Amazon DSSTNE: Deep Scalable Sparse Tensor Network Engine

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Post by inopinatus »

eranation wrote: post #19
throwaway6497 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a second, a thought crossed my mind that Amazon is actively trying to change its external perception after the NY times article and is trying to cozy up to developers. I found this on Glassdoor. Apparently, it will take a long time for them to make their culture less toxic. ===From Glassdoor=== Cons ==== The management process is abusive, and I'm currently a manager. I've seen too much "behind the wall" and hate…

I just joined AWS ProServ and I really don't see any of these things. Pretty amazing team and one of the best work life balance I've seen in a tech company so far. I have 4 other friends who work at AWS and all seem very happy so far. I found the glass door comment and it seems to be from an engineering manager. I have a friend who manages one of the AWS products and he seems to be pretty happy. I just joined so I re…

I suspect an inverse survivorship bias in the public representation of the company by ex-employees. Those of us with positive recollections tend to say very little, and (in my case at least) that's due to respect for Amazon's culture.
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