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This comment killed me : Will Ye Will Ye Engineering @ Cohere (cohere.io) 5mo Back when I worked at Amazon as a software engineer, the CRAZIEST thing happened
by sgt101 5y ago
This comment killed me :
Will Ye
Will Ye
Engineering @ Cohere (cohere.io)
5mo
Back when I worked at Amazon as a software engineer, the CRAZIEST thing happened to me. Here’s the story…
I was working from home with my girlfriend (at the time), when suddenly I get an urgent ping from my coworker: “Our service is experiencing a SEV 2! We need all hands on deck!” Uh oh, our team’s application has gone down!
However, as I scrambled to figure out how to fix the issue, I smelled something burning from another room and heard a fire alarm go off. “Will! There’s a fire! Help!” I heard my girlfriend shout. Now I was stuck in a conundrum — restore a critical Amazon service, or put out the fire in my apartment?
It was at that time I remembered Amazon’s famous leadership principle “Customer Obsession”. There are customers who depend on my team’s application — I can’t let them down! So I ignored the fire and my girlfriend’s pleas, and started debugging the production issue.
But all of a sudden, the smoke in my apartment cleared and the fire alarm fell silent. My girlfriend walked into the room, and to my astonishment, peeled off a wig and revealed herself to be Jeff Bezos himself! “I’m proud of you for being obsessed with our customers,” he said, and gave me a $5 Amazon gift card. He then leaped out of my window and hopped into a waiting Amazon Prime delivery van that quickly peeled away.
Even though I no longer work at Amazon, I’m so grateful for these experiences that taught me lessons I’ll never forget. Agree?
- cvs 5y agoYou had me at first, haha.
- danjac 5y agoThat's Linkedin level quality.
- snalty 5y agoI remember seeing this as a shitpost on linkedin
- belval 5y agoI like that we've come to a point where people are shitposting on LinkedIn as a counter-point to these insipid: > "TODAY I interviewed a SINGLE mom that had her BABY on her lap and apologized when it started crying. I gave her the JOB on the spot because motherhood is HARD. Let's all give single mom a break and be more human in the process! :clap: :clap:" I've unfollowed so many people at this point because I use it as an address book for coworkers and recruiters and these virtue signalling posts are not even trying to look human.
- mikeyjk 5y agoThe "agree?" is quintessential LinkedIn. Such an utterly shallow pretence for engaging a discussion.
- pc86 5y agoKeep in mind the only people using LinkedIn as anything other than "resume holder" or "mediocre job board" are also the type of people to think "Agree?" is some sort of enlightening prompt.
- ren_engineer 5y agoit's a marketing hack, LinkedIn's algorithm boosts posts with lots of comments and engagement. So people post those artificial questions at the end which are basically preaching to the choir the fact people actually fall for it is depressing
- bluedino 5y agoNow it's more like for agree, for xxxx, for .... There are supposed to be emoji's in there
- phgn 5y agoI've read this before, it's likely not by "Will Ye Will Ye" ;)
- alecco 5y ago> —— > I now work at Cohere (cohere.io)! Give it a spin Recruiter/spammer
- ILMostro7 5y agoGohere, you say? Thanks for clearing it up, btw. :)
- wy35 5y agoAuthor here. I’m a software engineer who likes to have fun on LinkedIn, not a recruiter/spammer. And yes, I was actually an SDE at Amazon!
- Bajeezus 5y agoI still miss your meme's from my Duke days! Glad to see you on HN
- nomadpenguin 5y agoGood to see that the Duke meme god is still meming
- moffkalast 5y ago> $5 gift card This makes it.
- beerandt 5y ago>taught me lessons I’ll never forget. Don't date women that are easily confused with Bezos in drag?
- drnonsense42 5y ago
- unemphysbro 5y agozing :)
- zht 5y ago?????
- tapoxi 5y agoHey man, don't kink shame!
- ignoramous 5y ago> “Customer Obsession”. There are customers who depend on my team’s application — I can’t let them down! That is also: - Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility (We must begin each day with a determination to make better, do better, and be better for our customers) - Deliver Results (Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle) - Bias for Action (We value calculated risk taking) - Think Big (They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers) - Are Right, A Lot (They have strong judgment and good instincts) - Ownership (They never say "that's not my job") - Dive Deep (No task is beneath them) Clearly, Will Ye Will Ye is operating at an Amazon final-stage boss level, if only they knew [0]! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051100
- hughrr 5y agoDo these come with a sick bag?
- ignoramous 5y agoDon't blame the leadership, as apparently this is exactly what they need to be doing: To paraphrase [High Output Management], the job of an executive is: to define and enforce culture and values for their whole organization, and to ratify good decisions. — What do executives do, anyway?, https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926 https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190926
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- duncangh 5y agoLmao this is great because on my "virtual on-site" final round of interviews at Amazon, the fire alarm of the person who was interviewing me went off. She switched to audio on the call and continued to try to work through the little coding challenge as she was shouting implementation details above the echo-y wails of a fire alarm raging in a crowded stairwell. Baffled, concerned for her safety and bewildered by her priorities, I hung up and pretended the call had dropped. No offer. No interest
- snowman-yelling 5y agoMy apartments fire alarm went off during my virtual on-site with Amazon too. There was about 10 minutes left and the interviewer said I should go and he had what he needed. Got an offer the next day!
- _fat_santa 5y agoAmazon vs Amazon on Blind
- snowman-yelling 5y agoExactly. I’ve been here for two years, not a long time by any means, and I don’t personally know a single instance of anyone getting pipped. I’ve never felt pressured to work overtime, haven’t had to race to meet an unreasonable deadline, and I’ve been rated exceeds on both of the performance evals I’ve been though. The Amazon I’ve experienced is much different than the one I read about before joining.
- coliveira 5y agoEvery group is different. It depends on the manager, the priorities, the projects, etc. But I imagine you'll be thinking different in a few years.
- actually_a_dog 5y ago
- rPlayer6554 5y agoWhen I saw that on bind the follow up comment was. "He was then PIP'd for accepting the gift card and not being frugal"
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- CobrastanJorji 5y agoAs it happens, many years ago I worked for Amazon and encountered a small microwave fire in the break room. I dealt with it myself, but I realized I had no idea what the appropriate way to notify somebody about a fire. I inquired and discovered that in the event of a fire, the correct behavior would have been to return to my desk and file a Sev-2 incident with the Facilities team. This should in theory page someone who could respond to the building being on fire. I asked if they meant Sev-1, but they said Sev-1 would be reserved for a fire that was impacting website traffic.
- akersten 5y agoIf anyone's curious, the correct response to a fire, presuming you couldn't immediately extinguish it, is to pull the fire alarm and evacuate the building.
- simonswords82 5y agoOr dial 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 IT Crowd reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab8GtuPdrUQ
- slopirate 5y agoI don't think anyone was curious.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]