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by jerglingu 4y ago
This is true. Job postings linger for close to a year before they can be filled, and in some cases positions will receive literally less than 10 applications over a week. It's even harder for more esoteric positions like data engineer.
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by jerglingu 4y ago
True, and on reflection of your comment, it's naive to wonder how hard he'll bring the culture of Amazon, especially since it's proven to "deliver results." While I view my time at Amazon as especially formative and
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by jerglingu 4y ago
This is huge, and I wonder how much Amazon culture Dave is going to intentionally implement in Flexport. I heard the heavy recruitment of Amazonian people and practices was already jarring enough to tenured Flexport employees.
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by jerglingu 4y ago
I felt the same reading this. Seems like everything analytics/data is like this these days. You have to read things multiple times over to either translate the abstractions and ball-hiding into plain English, or until you recognize tha
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by jerglingu 4y ago
I'm guessing the scorn is a reaction to the religious fervor that permeates the crypto space and that bleeds into the "mainstream" like the front page of HN and parts of Twitter. Based off the explosion of "told ya so&qu
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by jerglingu 4y ago
While I was in residual proximity of the whole thing (I ended up in the same company but different platoon, and I knew/worked with people in Tillman's platoon), I wasn't involved in it as I showed up about three years after t
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by jerglingu 4y ago
His enlistment was glorified, but bear in mind it was during a time when the ugly truths and outright lies of the GWOT had not been uncovered entirely. The fake claims of of WMD's in Iraq had not been outright nullified yet, and the Af
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by jerglingu 4y ago
This is a sentiment and self indulgent bragpost straight out of the Blind app. To others on the outside looking in: while there are corners of Amazon where it's possible to coast, a huge amount of people are grinded to pieces and opera
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by jerglingu 5y ago
Can you expand on this structured framework? I also went through a severe bitterness (and cynical) phase, on top of blindly throwing myself into everything without regard for my sanity. So I fear myself walking down the same path you were o
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by jerglingu 5y ago
On point 1: "That's not gonna happen in a large company." This doesn't happen in small or mid companies, either. Or if it does happen, it happens begrudgingly. SWE's have too much to do.
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by jerglingu 5y ago
I got same this feeling when reading the original white paper linked on the page[1]. It's filled with the kind of bloated abstract "consultant speak" chosen to mask relatively straightforward ideas. And then there is this cas
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by jerglingu 5y ago
Mine too. Maybe this is different for the especially early stages (sub-20 people) where people congregate around that shared mission. But for mid-to-late-stage startups, I find more bureaucracy propagators and responsibility shunners than B
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by jerglingu 5y ago
No, and it's a source of strain for many people at Amazon. There are, however, two LP's that are understood to stand well above the rest of the others: "Deliver Results" and "Customer Obsession."
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by jerglingu 5y ago
A big reason why Amazon's leadership principles (LP) are so ingrained into its culture is because it's a part of every single formal process in the company. If not officially (promo docs, interviews), then at the least implicitly
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by jerglingu 5y ago
It seems (at least anecdotally) that there are a lot of people in tech who may not game anymore, but nonetheless have a history steeped in Blizzard games like the author. And with the recent Blizzard news, a lot of people are trying to unta
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by jerglingu 5y ago
Great: I trust Amazon to not arbitrarily deprecate services, the analytics services far surpass GCP (have yet to play with Azure), customer service is A+, the AWS blog is an incredible resource to learn new things, and as somebody mentioned
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by jerglingu 5y ago
Can people not just take PTO whenever they want? Or does it breach some company policy at certain places? I don’t get why this person felt like he had to ask for time off when his wife had cancer. edit: thanks for the responses. My question
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by jerglingu 5y ago
> IMO it’s a tad silly to say that the U.S. lost these wars. Can you really lose a war with a massive nuclear arsenal on your side? It’s crazy that this seems to never be mentioned. An observation not lost to the ground forces. I was in
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by jerglingu 5y ago
A more common experience with BI teams than people are willing to confess to, especially when the business the BI team is meant to be tracking and measuring is growing faster than the team can manage. In my experiences and and observations,
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by jerglingu 6y ago
The nuance this article, and perhaps many commenters on HN, is missing is the latent nihilism powering much of the WSB-GME phenomenon. The same way some stubborn older people can't grasp that a minimum wage job can reliably pay rent an
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by jerglingu 6y ago
Yes! Window functions and decent demonstration of datasets with varying granularity on top of the basic join/aggregation assessment is all that is needed in the SQL for interviews. And if you're an engineer, attention to redefinin
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by jerglingu 6y ago
As many others have stated, geocities/angelfire/tripod and those raw, personal and ugly websites. But also www.insidetheweb.com , one of the more popular forum (they were called "message boards" back in the day) hosts of
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by jerglingu 7y ago
Materialized views, the upcoming ability to query directly from an RDS transactional DB through Redshift, and finally true separation of compute vs storage with RA nodes IMO make Redshift the market leader by a huge margin now. I haven&#x27
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by jerglingu 7y ago
Amen. I play and watch Pokemon with my son these days, and can't help but frequently be taken back in time to the mid-late 90's when websites were raw and so many pockets of the internet didn't have a lick of even bare bones
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by jerglingu 8y ago
> More than anything Northern Virginia should withdraw their proposal, Amazon wants the Government cloud business so bad that Virginia has Amazon over a barrel. Don't they already have this essentially locked in? https://
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by jerglingu 8y ago
I'm wondering if anybody lives in the hypothetical perfect world scenario the author writes about. I'm at one of the larger tech companies and it's inconceivable that something like this could exist (though the churn here is
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by jerglingu 8y ago
Is your talk online anywhere? I'm in the middle of LikeWar and it's the first I've really dug into mass influence/propaganda. It's infinitely interesting
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by jerglingu 8y ago
The incredulity lays here: > tells me I'm being deceptive and obviously support jihadi terrorism. This as I'm getting ready to leave on my 12th deployment.
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by jerglingu 8y ago
I agree 100% that complexity theory is the most important thing you learn that doesn't come intuitively. Unfortunately, a lot of us idiots, I suspect maybe the majority, have to have scalability completely beat down into us until it&#x