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Whoever caused this has got to be really stressed out right now.

by absolutemoose 5y ago

cghendrix 5y ago
I would legitimately probably cry.
- absolutemoose 5y ago
  I mean and it's Amazon of all places, the least forgiving of the tech companies.
- rantwasp 5y ago
  the question is: would you be at your desk?
MattGaiser 5y ago
Amazon seems like the kind of culture that would fire them anyway.
- adt2bt 5y ago
  Honestly, given the headlines of the past few weeks this is a fair joke, but in my experience they do not fire people for outages like this. Anything that can take down retail or AWS at large is considered a design problem, not a human error problem that deserves termination.
  - pookeh 5y ago
    Design problems become human problems at performance review time
  - MattGaiser 5y ago
    1. Even before the past few weeks of articles, anecdotes from people I know have always indicated that Amazon is a pretty brutal company so I am surprised by that. 2. Is it just a matter of delayed impact on you? Would it come up in reviews later?
  - sharpy 5y ago
    Having to write the CoE (correction of error)is punishment enough.
    - imwillofficial 5y ago
      I’m writing one right now (unrelated issue) The COE pain is real. Good luck fellow Amazonian, wherever you are.
    - adamredwoods 5y ago
      This is funny / not funny because when I had to do this is was on top of my regular sprint, so it's like having two jobs.
  - void_mint 5y ago
    > past few weeks Legitimately laughed out loud. A person jumped off of Amazon HQ because of the brutal pressure.
elondaits 5y ago
Or high-fiving his fellow state sponsored hackers… A lot of outages and problems in major sites these past few months.
- hoten 5y ago
  What tangible value could a state sponsor get from Amazon being down even just a few hours?
ffhhj 5y ago
They will be assigned to performance management, but nobody will tell them.
dehrmann 5y ago
Since it happened on a weekend, either someone did something stupid on a weekend, a routine operational task went wrong, something bumped into a limit, or there was a complex interaction of systems (all the best outages involve a complex interaction where it's actually hard to assign blame). I'd rally only be worried in the first case.

Whoever caused this has got to be really stressed out right now.

cghendrix 5y ago

I would legitimately probably cry.

absolutemoose 5y ago
I mean and it's Amazon of all places, the least forgiving of the tech companies.
rantwasp 5y ago
the question is: would you be at your desk?

MattGaiser 5y ago

Amazon seems like the kind of culture that would fire them anyway.

adt2bt 5y ago
Honestly, given the headlines of the past few weeks this is a fair joke, but in my experience they do not fire people for outages like this. Anything that can take down retail or AWS at large is considered a design problem, not a human error problem that deserves termination.
- pookeh 5y ago
  Design problems become human problems at performance review time
- MattGaiser 5y ago
  1. Even before the past few weeks of articles, anecdotes from people I know have always indicated that Amazon is a pretty brutal company so I am surprised by that. 2. Is it just a matter of delayed impact on you? Would it come up in reviews later?
- sharpy 5y ago
  Having to write the CoE (correction of error)is punishment enough.
  - imwillofficial 5y ago
    I’m writing one right now (unrelated issue) The COE pain is real. Good luck fellow Amazonian, wherever you are.
  - adamredwoods 5y ago
    This is funny / not funny because when I had to do this is was on top of my regular sprint, so it's like having two jobs.
- void_mint 5y ago
  > past few weeks Legitimately laughed out loud. A person jumped off of Amazon HQ because of the brutal pressure.

elondaits 5y ago

Or high-fiving his fellow state sponsored hackers… A lot of outages and problems in major sites these past few months.

hoten 5y ago
What tangible value could a state sponsor get from Amazon being down even just a few hours?

ffhhj 5y ago

They will be assigned to performance management, but nobody will tell them.

dehrmann 5y ago

Since it happened on a weekend, either someone did something stupid on a weekend, a routine operational task went wrong, something bumped into a limit, or there was a complex interaction of systems (all the best outages involve a complex interaction where it's actually hard to assign blame). I'd rally only be worried in the first case.