Well... amazon at this point has a pretty long established reputation as being an underpaid hellhole for developers. So I am not surprised they have 1900 open p

Well... amazon at this point has a pretty long established reputation as being an underpaid hellhole for developers. So I am not surprised they have 1900 open positions. If you are any good, you'll have better places to apply to. So they get the useless dregs. Amazon's story in this regard is a good lesson to tech firms about what happens if you treat developers like crap so long that word gets out about how bad it is at your place. The good ones will avoid you forever. You'll never again be able to hire the top talent, at any price. No one trusts you. Reputation is important. There's good reputation like Google, there's neither good or bad, like a lot of places, and then there are the places with the bad reputation. In hardware for example, HP used to have the best possible reputation. But then Fiorina as CEO destroyed the company's reputation among engineers. They are now permanently crippled. Word gets out. Maybe everything there has changed and things are better. That's possible. But it doesn't matter. It's like the story of the reformed born again wife beater. Sure, he feels bad about what happened to all his previous spouses and swears he has changed. But does a solid down to earth woman who isn't emotionally damaged really want to be the one to find out if it is true? No.