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by amzn-throw 2y ago
To me this is just a simple artifact of size & attention. Another example of this is stuff like Bluesky. There's a lot of reasons to hate Twitter/X, but people going "Wow, Bluesky is so amazing, there's no ads and it
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by amzn-throw 2y ago
Oops, my bad.
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by amzn-throw 2y ago
I meant an AWS cloud native application, yes. But I use "cloud native" in a way that actually makes sense, not the way that GCP dubbed Kubernetes and all of it's ecosystem of friends "cloud-native". "Native&quo
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by amzn-throw 2y ago
* RDS is a managed relational database service. You got a database? We'll run it in the cloud for you. Exact same bits and bytes as you're running locally. * Aurora is Amazon's own relational database. You can't run it y
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by amzn-throw 2y ago
Sounds good, but not true: https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-History/ S3 launched in 2006. EC2 didn't go GA until 2008. Elastic Block Store (a proper block store) showed up in 2008 too, actually went GA before even EC2.
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by amzn-throw 2y ago
Andy Jassy was the first product manager on AWS, and while there is lore debates whether he "came up" with the idea of AWS (probably not), he's been on it from the beginning and through every single product. I don't know
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by amzn-throw 2y ago
As someone that works at AWS (but not on S3), that's wrong in like eight different ways. But the only way that matters is the core one - analysis, data, and instrumentation. AWS does not make these kinds of decisions without a look at
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by amzn-throw 3y ago
I'm not lecturing them for leaving. I'm lecturing them for complaining about things that it WAS IN THEIR CONTROL TO ADDRESS. More than that - it was their actual JOB to ensure.
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by amzn-throw 3y ago
If you were L8 then the responsibility for setting the culture is 100% on you. L10s don't micromanage, and L7s take their cues from L8s. If you want to have fewer meetings, you can set that culture. If you want less fungible engineers,
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by amzn-throw 3y ago
I know a lot of people here are writing about how this can be done for small consulting companies, but I also saw it in Big Tech. Amazon until 2022 really genuinely exemplified this. I saw it for more than a decade leading up to this. Just
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by amzn-throw 3y ago
Been with Amazon for over a decade. The frupidity used to be a huge sore spot, but being honest, is no longer a part of the culture. Sure, there are no catered buffets or massage chairs, but the old inflexible rigid frupid systems are all g
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
1.5, but probably over a million of those are FC workers who are not on slack cuz they're running around the warehouse. There are just over 400,000 office employees WW So it's closer to 3.5%, and the announcement was only posted F
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
Sorry dude, you don't have credibility based on "Unless your willing to put up with a huge ration of shit on a regular basis, or you make it into management," Management at AWS arguably puts up with much more shit on a regula
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
I can't speak for Google, and Amazon doesn't have an L9, so our Distinguished Engineers are L10. But a decent bunch of them are the types of folks to have wikipedia pages: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_R
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
No, you like coding. Which is okay! But it's the difference between an individual carpenter making a rocking chair for himself and his family, or maybe making a couple to sell to his friends, and being a structural engineer. Bikesheddi
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
Who hurt you? Do you even like software engineering? Quit, and go make sourdough bread, shit.
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
Maybe so, but don't you think I talk to new employees? It's half of my job to support my whole team and deliver through others. I battled those tools when I started. I watched them get better. I've seen what new hires struggl
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
Amazon has a lot of bad internal tools, but this person's experience doesn't match mine (being here for 8 years) at all > 40% of my time trying to tame the bad internal tooling I was forced to use to submit my code, get it merg
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
Everyone's interpreting this as AWS is zipping every customer's S3 data and improved storage of their data with ztsd. That's now what Adrian said, and this is not an announcement - this was a "by-the-way" from a ret
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
Since we're sharing anecdotes and that's good enough for this thread, here's my own: I'm a white guy - pretty much a typical one. My manager is a white guy - possibly even more typical, follow along North American Dude S
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
My main message was that NO - that's not how it is ANYWHERE at the company. Connections data isn't available to managers de-anonymized. Period. On any team. This post also has nothing to do with Amazon's business practices, b
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
My primary HN account has a lot of other things in it that I'd rather not be associated with me being an "Amazonian", hence this one :) Manager performance is not tied to connections data. However, manager's performance
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
That's bullshit and you're gonna scare the shit out of any junior Amazonian reading this unnecessarily. Obviously nothing is TRULY anonymous - at the end of the day there is a super secured database that HR can go into if there is
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
Every competitive has a stack ranking system whether they admit it or not. They put lipstick on a pig but everyone's getting ranked and the lowest performers getting weeded out. The whole "People get fired even if they're doi
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
That's not a conspiracy theory, I work for Amazon - for a decade. I love it - best job I've ever had. And historically, while it's been a tough place to work, we've always been able to attract top talent. Partially - imp
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
For what it's worth, working at Amazon for a bunch of years now, this is the highest percentage of people that truly Give A Shit, I've ever encountered. I know it's not universal but in the parts I've worked in, it'
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
Very team-specific again. There are definitely horror stories of teams that are struggling to hire (because of misinformation like in this thread), yet still have to maintain a service operationally, so have an oncall rotation of 4 people.
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
You're right, but when they adjusted the L6 role guideline (circa 2016), it was specifically to clarify that the L6 role was never intended to have that span of influence. Rather, every 2-pizza team (8-13 people) should have a sr. engi
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
I'm glad you asked because it's a subtle thing, and may be related to me personally. But I would venture I'm not the only engineer like this. For me, I spent my whole career bouncing against the walls constraining of what an
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by amzn-throw 4y ago
This comment isn't directed to you specifically, but the many many others who feel the same. "What have you got to lose?" By that I mean, we're in a hot tech market. If it doesn't work out, you can likely find a job

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