>Judging from some of the comments here, software engineers working in Amazon must either be stupid or irrational to continue working there, given the market fo

>Judging from some of the comments here, software engineers working in Amazon must either be stupid or irrational to continue working there, given the market for software engineers. Hacker News hates big companies, Amazon being evil is in the zeitgeist, and people are unable to contextualize criticisms properly. Being a software engineer at Amazon is fine (yeah, yeah, congrats, out of the tens of thousands of engineers you were able to uncover a few horror stories and terrible teams. Shocking) and very lucrative.