Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

benadam.me

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

701–706 of 706 posts

Re: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

#701

Post by geelen »

SergeAx wrote: post #595
kentonv wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On further investigation we think this might have been purely a caching issue, not the backend problem we originally suspected. The problem is that your site generator produces different file names for each version, but doesn't preserve the old files. So when you upload a new version, then the old version of the assets become 404, unless they happened to be cached. But it's possible the HTML is cached and the CSS not…

Isn't that a default behavior for modern JavaScript SPAs: bundle all the frontend code into several files with unique hash names and refer them from generic html home page? Changing hash every time code changes?

Yes, which is why Pages has some dedicated logic to help preserve assets that were "seen in the last version now gone". Unfortunately, the "cache everything" setting at the CDN overrides that. We should probably be clearer about that in the docs, and potentially we could autodetect that setting when you register your custom domain, hmmm...

Re: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

#702

Post by CRConrad »

sbierwagen wrote: post #488
itsdrewmiller wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excel has versioning now! But it doesn’t work when people email around hard copies instead of links to the shared file, which they still constantly do. >:-O

>instead of links to the shared file So you mean Excel 365, not desktop Excel?

Could mean links in the form of SharePoint / OneNote location of a spreadsheet file to edit with desktop Excel.

Re: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

#703

Post by CRConrad »

SwiftyBug wrote: post #281
dubeye wrote: post #239

According to a half remembered article , average retention is about 10 months, so when I saw the headline I assumed this was the topic. Amazon turn over more than their total workforce, every year. This includes all staff yes, but still shocking. If true.

This is crazy. At some point they will have hired / let go virtually every employable person. What then?

Then they start over.

Re: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

#704

Post by analognoise »

rjbwork wrote: post #287
analognoise wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oof that sounds super devious.

Not really. It's just a human responding to the incentives they're given. When management creates poor incentive structures, they get poor behavior, which drives poor outcomes. As they say - the problem with incentives is that they work.

Isn't this just Capitalism gaslighting us into being shitty people, and allowing shitty behavior?

Like we say "well that's the incentive" like that makes it ok?

Re: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

#705

Post by subsaharancoder »

bogomipz wrote: post #501
subsaharancoder wrote: post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worked at a FAANG in one team for 3.5 years (got promoted and had good reviews), transferred to a new team and got PIP'd by new manager and eventually fired within a year of transferring. One of my workmates clearly told me that my chances of getting out of the PIP were next to zero but by then it was too late. Best advice I can give someone who gets on a PIP is don't wait or work the process, just make an exit plan…

Wow, so it's basically like you are a new hire when you transfer? Do you mind saying which FAANG or is the experience you had simply norm at all of them?

> Wow, so it's basically like you are a new hire when you transfer? Do you mind saying which FAANG or is the experience you had simply norm at all of them?

The Big G. Your past performance primarily only influences the decision on whether you have a good track record of delivering, but once you transfer you essentially reset the clock with the new team and manager and the expectations might be completely different for whichever reason, it could be personality or org structures etc. I don't know if my experience is the norm at all of them since I haven't worked at all the FAANGs, but as I said it's important to "read the tea leaves" early, and if the new team doesn't feel right make your opinions known early and plan an exit before you come a statistic.

Re: I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

#706

Post by coliveira »

gregkerzhner wrote: post #573
coliveira wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't agree. I much prefer to spend one hour doing a live coding interview than spending 24h working on a test. It is much more time spent, and therefore more stressful.

If you can ace a 1 hour coding interview without any preparation then more power to you! But many of us have to spend months doing practice problems to perform well in that 1 hour interview. I’ve heard many stories of people doing hundreds of practice problems to pass these kinds of interviews. I’d much rather dedicate a weekend to solve a take home challenge using technologies I already know than dedicate many month…

I make a point of never doing "projects" during a recruitment process. The fact is that there are too many good opportunities out there that will not require me two spend a full day or even several days in a week to complete a job application, without compensation. Whenever I hear that there is a "project" to complete, I just tell them that I already have tons of projects to work on and pass the "opportunity".
Post reply on HN