Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

Honestly I've been to offices at Amazon in India, and this was not my impression. I would slack Indian coworkers and not hear back for ages even during normal working hours.

At the end of the day the reality at Amazon is that your manager dictates your experience. If you join a bad team you will have a miserable time. The best work experiences of my life were also at AWS.

People have very different metabolisms and lifestyles. I know people who need less than 5h per night and are completely healthy. I myself feel like shit if I wake up before 9am.

What does Amazon need thousands of engineers for, exactly?

Amazon.com is a fine website. It is finished. It is complete, perfect as it is. The website could remain the exact same for the next ten decades, with minor adjustments to the product menus to reflect new products, and it would serve its purpose perfectly without risking being dethroned by competitors.

Why do millions of lines of code need to be written each month? It certainly isn't reflected in my browsing experience.

The British cracked the German naval codes with no more mathematicians than can sit at a table. But Amazon needs thousands of engineers to run an e-commerce website (and its concurrent AWS, which could be run by less than 50 engineers)?

(Not a software engineer or someone who's ever worked for $AMZN)

Edit: Woosh, way too many people failed to understand that this post was mostly sarcasm. Cunningham's Law in action.

Most Amazon engineers do not work on the amazon.com front end.

I read a telling point about Jeff Bezos yesterday, he believes people, all people, are inherently lazy and will work to avoid work. The description seemed to be trying to say, without saying, he's an Ayn Rand disciple, meaning he drunk the Kool-Aid to believe he's a John Gault or an Roark and we're just the peons preventing him from greatness and his destiny.