awsthro00945

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by awsthro00945 5y ago
This isn't really true. Stock price is not an indicator of a company's "bottom line". As someone who helps respond to major breaches at big companies, these types of breaches often result in enormous expenditures on co
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Don't assume things about me, and don't condescend onto me like you're some wise master. I'm not some young fresh college grad. I've been around the block plenty, worked at plenty of companies, lived in multiple cit
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>But merely pleasant interactions I didn't say they are "merely pleasant". I said they are enjoyable, desirable, and helpful .
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>They sound like colleagues. As distinct from other employees or friends. I think the point being made is that this is totally okay . There's an undertone in this greater thread that "people you work with aren't really
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
The fact that I have a limited amount of time to invest in things is exactly why those things are necessary to have at the workplace. I like having fun, and I like making friends. Being limited on time, I want to maximize the percentage o
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>Because if you live in a great place, all those things are available to you without discontinuity regardless of WHO you work for. And how is this an argument for not also getting those things through work? I have many hobbies outside wo
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>This is one of those things where peoples' warnings to the young come from hard won experience, but where it doesn't sound right to people who have not themselves yet gained the experience. Speak for yourself. I am very experi
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
> Relying on your employer for these items seems unwise. Why? Work is where you spend one third (or more) of your time during your adult life. Why the hell would I not want such a significant portion of my life to not also provide great
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Yes. Even before the pandemic I (and most of my Big4 colleagues) worked from home when possible (my firm didn't care at all if you came to the office), but 80%+ of the time we were at the whims of our client and were traveling to their
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
This is only the Deloitte UK firm, and does not apply to any other Deloitte country firm, such as the US.
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Based on my experience working on different teams and interfacing with the SA teams (but not actually working as an SA, mind you), being an SA at AWS seems to be one of the better positions in terms of workload, limited on-call responsibili
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Most bar raisers are limp noodles that will just do whatever the hiring manager says. It's trivially easy to hire a mediocre person with full intent to fire them, and a bar raiser would likely be none-the-wiser nor would they stop it.
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
FAANG interviewing has nothing to do with your skill as an engineer. FAANG interviews only evaluate how good you are at jumping through the specific hoops they require for their special interview process. For Amazon, it's all about how
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
ProServe and SAs have little-to-no on-call responsibilities, but the general workload issues and mindsets affect those teams as well. Just as an example, resource management (aka staffing) and project scoping are things that AWS Sales is a
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>If the root cause is to be fixed someone needs to look at it in depth The root cause has already been looked at in depth 999 times when the same issue has come up. It's already been RCAed and the fix has been put in the backlog to
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
The money is probably the thing that keeps most people in the job, but it's not like willingness to take a pay cut magically makes jobs fall into your lap, either. It expands the pool of companies you could possibly work for, sure, but
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
I don't have any particular reading material, and my example of the on-call load at AWS that I'm referring to is probably very basic to most people. On my team at AWS, leadership has given specific instruction that we do not belie
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
Because changing jobs is really fucking difficult. I'm probably one of the biggest proponents of "quit your job, you deserve better" that you'll ever find, but even I have to admit that finding a new job is ridiculously
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
AWS is very big, culturally, on making sure that all the bugginess from shitty code is not shown externally to the customer. Externally it might look like everything is fine to you, but internally AWS is a massive, leaky cargo ship with tho
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by awsthro00945 5y ago
>Our on-call was pretty bad (40-60 tickets a week) and there was very little investment being put in to improve it. We had a lot of little scripts here and there which would solve extremely specific situations but no focus was ever put o