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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Can’t see the article (paywall), but this isn’t a surprise. You have Democrat candidates open to or advocating for the notion of increasing taxes on the elite classes. For the rich, it’s a tiny investment to support the opposing candidate..
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Is this the right way to hire? Not saying it’s wrong but I’ve taken a different approach which has generally worked out. Even if I was hiring for a specific role (front end), I care less about familiarity with specific bundlers or framework
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
I’m not sure what’s the point of your comment. As an American I’m also lucky that my country isn’t facing the issues innocent people in Syria, Iraq, etc face being caught in a civil war. I’m lucky we have vaccines, clean water, contracts, c
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Using personal time to work for my employer instead of investing it in myself.
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Recommendation systems.
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
At Google or FB you’d earn upwards of 300-400K in a senior role. I don’t think being on the shiny stuff t your previous company will help unless you’re known in the industry, as in you’re brought out as a Distinguished engineer or similar V
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Somewhere between $150-160K. My salary is $160K (that’s the max your salary can be at Amazon). The rest of my compensation (remaining ~$160k) is in restricted stock unit vests. I save 100% of that $160K after taxes. I max out my 401K from m
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
These numbers are self reported so I wouldn’t index on them that much - most numbers I see there for Amazon are on the higher end and give the appearance the higher end of the scale is the median... which is inaccurate given that some of th
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
$320K at Amazon this year. I’m 32 and have been here 7 years.
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
You just wrote that I’m abusing customers and then say it’s not an attack. S3 is blob storage. Dynamo is a key value store with support for additional indexes. Neither technologies are particularly novel today or provide specific features t
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Salaries are capped at $160 but salaries are a part of your total comp. Most of my compensation comes from stock not salary, and my salary is maxed.
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
You didn’t answer my question and deflected, only responding with personal attacks. Nice. I still think that your notion of intentional vendor lock in is misinformed at best and poor design and architecting from your side (at worst). I do h
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Amazons internal organizations all have slightly different culture, although there’s a core set of company values (Leadership Principles) that keep us bounded together. Within Amazon, some places will absolutely grind engineers with nightma
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
401K match is garbage but salaries are decent. I’d say we’ve gotten far more competitive in pay, and that’s not even counting the crazy stock appreciation over the past several years. In terms of overall benefits, we aren’t competitive - wh
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
How so? Op is correct - you shouldn’t be using the console to actively manage your infrastructure. The consoles primary purpose is to let you quickly spin up resources while you explore. If you have a real business use case, all your infras
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
What’s your problem domain? You shouldn’t be locked into AWS. No offense, but sounds like bad design or more generally, you or your engineers don’t know what they’re doing.
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
I work at Amazon. Ellisons assessment is trash meant to fool maybe Wall Street analysts, but as an engineer, his claims are laughable. In reality, database migrations are hard. Removing that factor entirely for a moment, engineers don’t wan
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
You might hate the console or CLI tools, but people at Amazon have real data telling them the CX is good enough and their capital would be better spent investing in other features. Source: I work there. :P
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
I mean - I haven’t worked at any other large tech company so I don’t have any data point to make that claim.
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
I’m an engineer now at Amazon. I’ve been here 7 years. 5 years ago, our culture was far more toxic. More recently, some orgs are horrible places to work and others are much better. I don’t think we’re much worse than other companies. Our pa
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Can’t see the article (pay wall). Does it speak to artificial sweeteners? How bad are the two splendas I put in my coffee everyday?
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
I lived in Little Rock for high school and Norman, OK for college. How does KS compare? Shit you could not pay me enough to go back to Oklahoma or Arkansas.
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
In the grand scheme of things, even $200K is not a lot of money. I made record this year (~$320K), but I end up saving it all. Can I afford to buy a home? Absolutely. Will I buy a home? Absolutely not. Let’s say I purchase an $650K home out
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
How does your total comp fare relative to Seattle? I’m living in downtown Seattle now working for Amazon. I’ve been here almost 8 years. My TC is north of $300K, but the mental strain this fucking company has had on me has me constantly on
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
What that article doesn’t capture is how many engineers absolutely burned out working against unreasonable deadlines and cut throat managers.
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
I’m specifically speaking to Amazon. Why did you turn this into a personal attack?
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by throwaway981211 7y ago
Throwaway account. I’ve been with Amazon as an engineer for about 7 years now. We call ourselves diverse but really all we have are Asian (Indian and Chinese) devs... in some engineering orgs, white people outside of management are a minori