I just had my two year anniversary at Amazon. I've written many more than 700 lines but I bet less than 160K. And yes, deleting code is the best. I don't know

I just had my two year anniversary at Amazon. I've written many more than 700 lines but I bet less than 160K. And yes, deleting code is the best. I don't know the GP but their post is believable. Some parts of Amazon are mired in cross-team dependencies. Worse, to get anything done in those situations, hacks have been piled on top of hacks for tragic years. The right solution may be waiting in the wings but all the dominoes have to fall first. There is a lot of variety at Amazon. There are high-pressure, high-reward teams like Kindle. There is cutting edge stuff at AWS and elsewhere. My team is a leaf far out on the dependency tree. Approximately, we have only end users. It's a great situation, even with a pager (shared between five people, so one week or less a month). Our pager, on the average, does not go off. We get to ship software every week and we're profitable.