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Terrible article. Im ex-AWS, left as a principal after 10 years to go take another global megacorps shilling. I dont even disagree with the premise, but its so

Terrible article. Im ex-AWS, left as a principal after 10 years to go take another global megacorps shilling. I dont even disagree with the premise, but its so clearly a predetermined conclusion written as opinion piece to fit the hot news topic. Ex a sloppy as hell and inconsistent premise. > engineers had identified DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint for US-EAST-1 as the likely root cause its the point that wasnt the root cause. The root cause was ipso facto much more complex, insidious, and unobservably spooky action at a distance. I say that not knowing the true cause but being very willing to bet a bunch of AMZN that it wasnt as simple as “herp derp dns is hard and college hire sdes dont understand octets and delegation.” Or this stupid citation if were talking about senior/long term AWS tech roles: > Internal documents reportedly say that Amazon suffers from 69 percent to 81 percent regretted attrition across all employment levels. The citation _appears_ to be about consumer/retail delivery and ops folks. And how 69-80% _of total attrition is RA_. While el reg has written it trying to imply 80% _annual attrition_ in a completely different org and business unit. So I know corey isnt stupid, and hot takes are his paycheck. But does he think his readers are stupid?

malfist 1y ago
As ex-amazonian, you should know that our average tenure for an SDE is just barely over 8 months. The old farts tool should have told you that during your day
- donavanm 1y ago
  And whats the median? Talking about hot take tenure averages without expressing the components is just silly. I, personally, was well aware of actual hiring and attrit rates up and until fairly recently. Again, Im not saying things are good (I left for reasons!). But use better data and arguments.
  - jatins 1y ago
    > I, personally, was well aware of actual hiring and attrit rates up and until fairly recently. Could you provide the data in this thread so that it adds to the discussion?
  - foobiekr 1y ago
    You'd have to have some incredible rapid attrition to have the median be above the average. Any tech company that left skewed would be considered a disaster by pretty much anyone.

malfist 1y ago

As ex-amazonian, you should know that our average tenure for an SDE is just barely over 8 months. The old farts tool should have told you that during your day

donavanm 1y ago
And whats the median? Talking about hot take tenure averages without expressing the components is just silly. I, personally, was well aware of actual hiring and attrit rates up and until fairly recently. Again, Im not saying things are good (I left for reasons!). But use better data and arguments.
- jatins 1y ago
  > I, personally, was well aware of actual hiring and attrit rates up and until fairly recently. Could you provide the data in this thread so that it adds to the discussion?
- foobiekr 1y ago
  You'd have to have some incredible rapid attrition to have the median be above the average. Any tech company that left skewed would be considered a disaster by pretty much anyone.