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Are you speaking from experience or simply making things up? I know a fair number of former AWS engineers and managers. None of them think like this.
by tyre 3mo ago
Are you speaking from experience or simply making things up? I know a fair number of former AWS engineers and managers. None of them think like this.
- geodel 3mo ago"Former" seems to an important detail here.
- gleenn 3mo agoIf someone quits their job, do all their opinions suddenly become suspect? You're kind of damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't. Either you work for the company and you are biased one way, or you quit and now your bias is now suddenly the other way. I've joined and quit many jobs and my opinion may or may not have changed due to my change in status but it is clearly and ad hominem attack.
- FabCH 3mo agoNot the OP, but: The point was not that their opinion is suspect, the point was that they are former because people who care about the customer get fired and/or that everyone who cared is former, so nobody who is left cares.
- switchbak 3mo agoIf I worked at a place like that, I'd sure as hell work my butt of to get a job somewhere else. Or in my case, actively ignore any and all recruiting from that sesspool.
- zelphirkalt 3mo agoMaybe they are former AWS employees for a reason and now want things to go better than they were at AWS.
- nullsanity 3mo ago[dead]
- tmpz22 3mo agoAWS has had this reputation for over a decade. Every former AWS (including poached not fired) has relayed to me a verson of this. Every once in a while (~1:12) you get one that sounds like a Mormon missionary praising how its not that way and AWS is perfect.
- embedding-shape 3mo ago> Every once in a while (~1:12) you get one that sounds like a Mormon missionary praising how its not that way and AWS is perfect. The strange thing is that I only come across those missionaries online and never in person (although I did go to a AWS event once [never again] and met a bunch of them, so seemingly they are actually real, to my surprise).
- mendigou 3mo agoI am former AWS and this is pretty accurate. The other factor to add here is that, with some exceptions, the whole company feels like a Rube Goldberg machine and very few people care about what happens outside their cog (because they’re not incentivized to do so).
- qurren 3mo agoYes, I am a former AWS employee. I got put on Focus because my "contributions were not coming through" to leadership.