> It would be interesting to know more about his desire to work for Amazon that badly. Amazon is basically the company I really, really, really want to work fo

> It would be interesting to know more about his desire to work for Amazon that badly. Amazon is basically the company I really, really, really want to work for, and the only reason I don't apply is that I have a small kid and a wife already working there, and I know how chaotic life would be if I did it now. So I'm waiting for the kid to grow a little more. Now, the reason I want to work there so much is that I see them as the only big tech company providing actual value to society at large these days. Other companies have done it in the past, but it seems that now they only iterate on their old things or put out shiny but useless tech. Amazon on the other hand seems to be always coming up with new ways to innovate in ways that make people's lives more practical in a more real sense. I also admire them for basically having started the whole IaaS thing. Another reason I want to work there is to learn. Few companies run large systems at the scale they do. From the outside (and from a little perspective I get from my wife, but she takes the whole "don't talk about what we do here" very seriously), they seem to have an awesome engineering culture - I was thrilled when I read the paper about them using formal methods to prove correctness of a number of AWS services. Working there must be a tremendous learning experience.