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by myalphabet 3y ago
>After 2 day delivery became 5 day delivery Where do you live? I hear this repeated on HN a lot, but every person I know IRL doesn't have this problem (ie family spread across multiple states). Hell, in the last ~2 years, other than
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by myalphabet 3y ago
Amazon Basics are cheap and low quality, but they're at least curated. Amazon doesn't just slap their brand on any random shit, so you at least know that your phone charger will meet safety standards, for example. I don't oft
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by myalphabet 4y ago
>back-weighting the vesting schedule is perfectly constructed to make people endure abuse in the workplace. Amazon's work culture is toxic in a lot of ways and this RTO is idiotic, but saying this about the vesting schedule just sho
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by myalphabet 4y ago
Despite the impression that Amazon is a hellplace, it remains one of the most desired places in the world for software engineers to work, so being "worse than Amazon" isn't saying much. Walmart's tech side of things is v
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by myalphabet 6y ago
>A good agile process will not have an ironclad upfront definition of what is to be delivered in a large project. "what is to be delivered" does not have to be a rigid definition of "5,000 lines of code program with featur
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by myalphabet 6y ago
Nobody said anything about waterfall. A good agile process can and should have all of the things the parent commenter listed. If you eschew those things by using the "well we're agile, that means we don't plan ahead!" ex
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by myalphabet 6y ago
Some numbers to put this into perspective: A $500 bonus for one month of full time 40/hr/week work comes out to ~$3.20/hr "raise" for the month of June. Amazon minimum pay is $15/hr, so this bonus is effectivel
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by myalphabet 6y ago
An NDA is practically unenforceable in this situation, which is the entire point a noncompete is a thing. Who is going to snitch on them for revealing AWS secrets to Google and violating the NDA? Another Google exec?
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by myalphabet 6y ago
Agreed. I'm generally uncomfortable with noncompetes and especially with Amazon's practice of making every employee sign one. Unless it's a really special case where a team is working on something truly groundbreaking and s
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by myalphabet 6y ago
Yea, that's something else I forgot to mention. I chalk it up to OP possibly being inexperienced/naive (I think this was his first job out of college), but I have worked with a lot of companies and all of them require you to pay
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by myalphabet 6y ago
I fear OP may have misunderstood how the signing bonus works and it seems to have caused him undue stress. I've interviewed at Amazon and had a lot of conversations about compensation. I don't know about the terms of the relocatio
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by myalphabet 6y ago
I can't really comment on your interview experiences except to say: that sucks. I know firsthand (unemployed for a long time and had a really long personal struggle similar to yours) how shitty it can be. The unfortunate reality is tha
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by myalphabet 7y ago
It isn't all grim! His granddaughter is successful porn star Brandi Love.
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by myalphabet 7y ago
When did you join the Austin office? I'm guessing things changed over time. When I visited there definitely was not a security person (not for the building nor for the Cloudflare suite in the building) and there were no badges. I was a
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by myalphabet 7y ago
That’s good to hear! I edited my original comment to say that this was over a year ago and was still when the Austin office was relatively new so perhaps it was just the effects of adjusting to a new space, and hopefully things are differen
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by myalphabet 7y ago
One of the folks I talked to while there was one of the senior security team members, and I mentioned it to him during the interview but felt like it was brushed off (honestly that’s not that uncommon, I’ve worked in security for years and
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by myalphabet 7y ago
It’s always nice reading about a company taking security seriously, and Cloudflare has some decent write ups for their hardware/software security, but I sure wish they would take other forms of security more seriously. I visited Cloudf
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by myalphabet 7y ago
At a broader level, federally protected speech in the US isn't absolute; the Supreme Court has ruled a number of times that restrictions can be placed on organizing protests, such as you can't protest in the middle of a busy freew
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by myalphabet 7y ago
Random speech doesn't become any less random just because it is federally protected. On the contrary, it actually becomes less federally protected if it is random, because federal protection of speech requires specific time, place, and
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by myalphabet 7y ago
How large is your company, in terms of number of people? I’m talking about companies with hundreds of thousands of managed identities/employees. OIM is typically the only IdM software capable of scaling that high (though it doesn’t com
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by myalphabet 7y ago
So I brought up OIM because I have some personal experience with it and similar software. It’s main selling point is that it is extremely performing and scalabale, and it is so big (and supported by such a large company) that it has ready-m
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by myalphabet 7y ago
In the security space I do have experience with many customers who are looking into greenfield implementations of stuff like Oracle Identity Manager.
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by myalphabet 7y ago
From what I see at my consulting clients, the main areas where Oracle competes aren’t with Azure. The Oracle Cloud isn’t about spinning up VMs or web servers (though yes they do have those features), but about running enterprise apps where
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by myalphabet 7y ago
Punchline? Oracle isn’t the biggest cloud provider but it’s naive to say they are a punchline. Oracle Cloud may not be used much amongst the startups or app/web dev crowd here on HN, but other parts of large enterprises are indeed eati
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by myalphabet 7y ago
FWIW I was excited about this in 6.0 but never actually got it to work with Hyper-V. It may be a hardware issue on my side (my CPU is ~6 years old and doesn’t support some VM features) but I’ve also seen a lot of other people say that 6.0 c
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by myalphabet 7y ago
Your original comment was responding to “create, manage virtual environments(using venv) apart from managing requirements file(Pipfile) and an npm like locking mechanism, dependency graphs, dev dependencies and more.” and saying that this i
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by myalphabet 7y ago
> Are there any other programming languages whose package-management comes close to this level of intricacy and complexity? I think many do. Ruby, Node, Erlang/Elixir, Java, Go, Rust, dotnet, C... I’m having trouble thinking of a mo
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by myalphabet 7y ago
Indeed, this has always rubbed me the wrong way. As another commenter mentioned, there are supply & demand issues at play. However, even considering that, there is still a widely held attitude amongst companies that you should feel grat
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by myalphabet 7y ago
>Most of the benefit to me is the lack of routine. Wow, this is literally the exact reason I loathe remote working! I've been working remotely for almost 5 years now and I'm about to jump ship at my current job specifically s
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by myalphabet 7y ago
It isn't extremely common to do so, but the most basic example I can give is incidentals at a hotel. The hotel room and some incidentals are reimbursed by the company, but other incidentals are not (ie some consulting clients do not al

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