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one of the reasons you hear about more amazon folks in starups vs. MS is that MS generally treats developers very well so they tend to stay around. Amazon is no
by elq 18y ago
one of the reasons you hear about more amazon folks in starups vs. MS is that MS generally treats developers very well so they tend to stay around. Amazon is not such a great company to work for, at least according to the people I know that "did time" there.
- futureintern 18y agoThanks - that's the kind of thing I was hoping to find out. Could you elaborate a bit on why people didn't like being at Amazon?
- elq 18y agothe general theme was amazon is cheap - cheap computers, cheap office space (poor ventilation, uncomfy chairs etc), long hours, a large amount of pager duty (1 week/month not uncommon), relatively poor pay, etc