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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 5y ago
A number of key engineers who I loved working with left my team around the same time, and their departure made me uninterested in continuing on that team any longer. I applied internally to a few other teams, and found out a couple weeks in
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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 5y ago
No, you are wrong about this. Or several years out of date at least. The idea that Amazon isn't profitable save for AWS is almost a meme for some reason in parts of the tech community, but it isn't true and never really has been w
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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 6y ago
> So when we have a case where the differences with other similar cases are the race and sex of the individual, it would be odd not to conclude that race and sex were probably strong, if not determining, factors. Really? The only differe
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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 6y ago
That would of course depend entirely on what the actual ultimatums were, the leverage and value each individual commanded within google, and to a lesser extent their history with the company. The phrasing of your comment strongly implies yo
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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 6y ago
Apologies in advance for the snark, but I find this statement equally valid: > You write as if there is a division of work between the couple. That would be true if men and women could decide who would stay at home and who would work at
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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're legally bound not to say certain things by the terms of the NDA you signed, or if you've simply chosen not to share some details. But I read that entire page, and who is in the wrong in that story hinge
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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 6y ago
Fellow happy Amazon SDE - hopefully you're not being literal saying you have depression from HN type crowds displaying their typical amount of empathy. just in case you are, take this as a friendly reminder that you're not the onl
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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 6y ago
It was accurate until this year - Amazon switched 401k providers from Vanguard to Fidelity. I don't remember all the details but after tax contributions (which are required for doing a mega backdoor) are possible now, but weren't
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by ikRwS3Nb6Y 7y ago
Disclaimer: current amazon sde I was shocked at the end of your story that it was Amazon you were talking about, but I'm assuming this story happened at least a few years ago. I know of one friend who was put on a PIP around 2013 or 20