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> Do you know how any large company like Amazon operates? Does anyone really know how a large company like Amazon operates? I've certainly worked for multinat

• scarface74 4y ago
  And nowhere in that company’s supply chain are that not workers who aren’t treated like the “elite” software developers? How many people toil away in factories “working” for Apple creating iPhones or “working” for Google creating their servers and phones. Or is it morally better since they are outsourced?
  • hotpotamus 4y ago
    I'm not sure what you're going for here. I'm sure that capitalism makes us all complicit somehow or another and of course I can't trace the supply chain for everything (or probably any) I use. But the small places I've worked have been much more human and egalitarian than the multinationals without exception.
    • scarface74 4y ago
      That’s true. Before coming to AWS I worked as a senior dev/de facto “cloud architect” (in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king) for a 60 person company where we had 5 weeks vacation and free family healthcare. I could basically get anything I wanted pushed through and the CTO trusted my judgement implicitly. When they got bought out for 10x revenue (I had already left), the founders gave each of the employees an extra bonus and they reached out to a former employee who had been there for years and gave him a bonus on top of the options he exercised - they had no legal obligation to do so. But, they didn’t and couldn’t give me the 50% bump in compensation I make now and working remotely (permanently).
      • hotpotamus 4y ago
        Indeed, I've found that money allows people to justify much.