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I'm a former intern from AWS (6 month non-tech internship). Now I work in a completely different part of the company full time. My experience is exactly like w
by justinv 11y ago
I'm a former intern from AWS (6 month non-tech internship). Now I work in a completely different part of the company full time.
My experience is exactly like what 'onaplane' wrote. Internship was great & very rewarding from a career/working on cool stuff perspective. What I saw was that people who worked long did it because they wanted to (I work(ed) long sometimes because I wanted to!). 40-50 was the norm for AWS & it's roughly the same on the retail side. Are there bad teams at Amazon? Absolutely. Are there awesome ones? Yep!
"A lot of what you say is right out of the amazon weltanshaung-- its cult has seeped in to some extent."
You're doing the exact same thing in reverse.
- wpietri 11y ago> You're doing the exact same thing in reverse. Could you explain what you mean by that? It sounds like you're suggesting that he's part of an anti-Amazon cult, which I'm having trouble making sense of.
- justinv 11y agoIn the sense that the poster is perpetuating that there is no good at Amazon at all. That everything is awful and that no one could possible like/want to work there.
- wpietri 11y agoI disagree entirely. His point wasn't that onaplane was saying good things when only bad things ever happen. His point was that onaplane was caught up in a cult dynamic. If you're only reading him as saying "Amazon is 100% bad", you're missing the point. Cults that are 100% bad don't work; they quickly fall apart. The cult dynamic is only stable when it provides a fair dose of good to go along with the abuse and control.
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoWhich neighborhood do you live in? Why did you choose it?