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A big part of this is the need for workers with security clearance to service your government contracts. Its far far easier to hire people who have clearance ra
by blacktriangle 5y ago
A big part of this is the need for workers with security clearance to service your government contracts. Its far far easier to hire people who have clearance rather than hire somebody and then pay for them to go through the process, and the DoD has the majority of people with security clerance.
- eschulz 5y agoIndeed. Take into account the security clearance matter, and the fact that these two organizations work closely together 24/7, and this just makes sense. With whom would AWS have a closer relationship than with the DoD or DHS?
- xkjkls 5y agoI formerly worked in AWS on a team that had occasional minor need to deploy and make changes to the GovCloud. I was the only US Citizen on my team and was required for every single deployment.
- arcanus 5y agoDid this give you incredible leverage for performance reviews, raises, etc?
- xkjkls 5y agonone at all; this task was just literally a "hit the button".
- austincheney 5y agoI can only imagine turning off the lights and sending people home in those moments where you have a late night family emergency.
- xkjkls 5y agopretty much all of the times I was needed were scheduled, so there was rarely surprises.
- whoknew1122 5y agoYup. Not only do you have to be a US Citizen, but you also have to be on US soil. So if you're on vacation internationally? Can't make that change. AWS takes that stuff very seriously.
- atatatat 5y agoCan you tell me what country I have to be in to cancel my services and stop being billed?
- shalmanese 5y agoIran
- bunfunton 5y agoSuuuuure. Whoops and there goes a vpn tunnel with a residential endpoint.
- prpl 5y agoThat’s not particularly surprising. I spent a lot of time on an army base in mid aughts as an undergrad for a similar reason, decommissioning an astrophysics project.
- walshemj 5y agoAnd I bet that Amazon pays a lot better for SC (DV) cleared workers than the DOD does.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoLikely, but Amazon isn't known for its high salaries, is it? Also govt jobs typically have good benefits so a 1:1 salary comparison may not make sense.
- Natsu 5y agoIt also helps if you have people who are just familiar with the things the government is trying to do, too, so they don't just get blank stares when they start discussing IAVAs and STIGs.
- cosmodisk 5y agoIt does a lot. I have someone in the family,who went from working for the government regulator to going into the private sector and literally exchanging emails with ex colleagues a few days later. Knows the system, what's doable and what's not and so on.