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Funny to see people ask questions like LSE, lol you can probably figure out if someone on an alt account is a real amazonian or ex amozonian by asking them a fe
by yoloyoloyoloa 5y ago
Funny to see people ask questions like LSE, lol you can probably figure out if someone on an alt account is a real amazonian or ex amozonian by asking them a few abbreviations.
My experience is that everything this guy mentioned in this post is true and more worse things are true that are not mentioned.
Working at amazon broke me. I had to go on Xanax after working at amazon and after quiting Xanax lost three jobs consequetively.
I had to work so hard to regain my self respect and confidence.
The situation described in this post is no different in Amazon Cape Town or any other place.
Btw the internal dev tooling is absolutely terrible and a pain to work with. The dev tooling is a result of "not invented here" syndrome. Forget about using a good opensource library to do a given task if that library is a google open source library.
It is hard to join amazon, but also to leave it. It operates a bit like a prison gang. Your phone tool icons are your prison gang tattoo's.
Like a prison gang you will move up the ranks by doing things, sometimes even taking out members of your own gang. The longer you are part of the gang and the deeper you get...the harder it becomes to leave until it becomes impossible to leave.
My two cents is that until amazon becomes customer obsessed with its "internal customers" aka the employees it is bound to fail.
- soared 5y agoSimilarly, oracle hates anything not built by oracle (especially google). They built their own version of google sheets, built their own outlook plugin to avoid ms entirely, etc. I’m not a dev but would have to call clients and say “please send me a blank google sheet, then I can use it to set up a doc we can use together”.
- tangjurine 5y agoHmmm I was just an intern but during my code reviews I was told to use a lot of stuff from Google Guava or something like that?
- tangjurine 5y agoBut I did hate and not really know how to use the internal tooling.