Comment by eventualcomp
3 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241#48951538
Quoting myself here: Amazon is heterogeneous. So much so, that positive anecdotes and negative anecdotes are near worthless without specifying the org. I don't want to name bad orgs but what org are you talking about?
Both Digital Products (Firephone, Fire tablets, Echo) and AWS (the IoT, Dynamo, S3 cluster) - but keep in mind this is going on a decade ago now, folks on the inside tell me that things have slipped significantly on this front since Bezos hung up the dreaded question mark.