Comment by tyre
6 days ago
Are you speaking from experience or simply making things up? I know a fair number of former AWS engineers and managers. None of them think like this.
6 days ago
Are you speaking from experience or simply making things up? I know a fair number of former AWS engineers and managers. None of them think like this.
I am former AWS and this is pretty accurate.
The other factor to add here is that, with some exceptions, the whole company feels like a Rube Goldberg machine and very few people care about what happens outside their cog (because they’re not incentivized to do so).
Rube Goldberg machine attached with used bubble gum and somehow the bubblegum was chewed in all the wrong ways
And many of which have been shipped across the pond to be someone else's problem.
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Maybe they are former AWS employees for a reason and now want things to go better than they were at AWS.
AWS has had this reputation for over a decade. Every former AWS (including poached not fired) has relayed to me a verson of this.
Every once in a while (~1:12) you get one that sounds like a Mormon missionary praising how its not that way and AWS is perfect.
> Every once in a while (~1:12) you get one that sounds like a Mormon missionary praising how its not that way and AWS is perfect.
The strange thing is that I only come across those missionaries online and never in person (although I did go to a AWS event once [never again] and met a bunch of them, so seemingly they are actually real, to my surprise).
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Yes, I am a former AWS employee.
I got put on Focus because my "contributions were not coming through" to leadership.
"Former" seems to an important detail here.
If I worked at a place like that, I'd sure as hell work my butt of to get a job somewhere else.
Or in my case, actively ignore any and all recruiting from that sesspool.
If someone quits their job, do all their opinions suddenly become suspect? You're kind of damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't. Either you work for the company and you are biased one way, or you quit and now your bias is now suddenly the other way. I've joined and quit many jobs and my opinion may or may not have changed due to my change in status but it is clearly and ad hominem attack.
Not the OP, but:
The point was not that their opinion is suspect, the point was that they are former because people who care about the customer get fired and/or that everyone who cared is former, so nobody who is left cares.