ozzythecat

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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Amazon’s game is squeezing out every ounce of value they can. I worked in one of the Seattle buildings. It was still a culture of people crying at their desks, incompetent managers being checked out or just stressing out everyone around the
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
It depends on what you want to do. I stayed on the IC track and rose to a staff/principal level role in big tech. I worked with quite a few MBAs, mostly product or program managers or directors who managed PMs. I don’t have an MBA, and
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Everyone lives off others. I'm also autistic, anti-work, and believe any government only giving food to some, instead of offering it to all, is already oppressive. Why the need to tell us you’re autistic? It doesn’t justify nor is
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Read the article and found it sensational. I was at Amazon for over 10 years. I think it’s a horrible place to work, and I regret the toll it took on my physical and mental health and my personal relationships. Maybe we should be alarmed by
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Currently not working and won’t start until January. I left my last employer after 10 years and can speak to my most recent time there. I found joy in my technical work, solving problems, and often breaking them down and bringing clarity to
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> I now live below the poverty line, using food stamps, have a child with a partner, am growing a community of supportive loving people, and am pursuing radically different projects of my own creation, including a culture construction ca
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> it’s all culminated in abusive studios, disconnected directors and fuck it someone else will fix my mess mentality. > And the disrespect for VFX workers, my god, they should come join an ops team they’d get more respect. > I gues
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I was at Amazon for 10.5 years working as an engineer and then moving into leadership roles. I didn’t exit for a new opportunity so much as my sanity. My personal relationships, mental and physical health, all took a heavy hit. I stuck arou
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I was with Amazon working in tech for over 10 years. I lost control of my health, my hair turned white, and during that time I lost most of my friends. It’s obviously my own fault for letting all that happen. Of all the companies in the wor
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I religiously use Spotify for music on my iPhone. Are you against the subscription payment model, or are you considering this device because it’s better than Spotify on an iPhone? If it is better, how so? Genuinely curious if there are bett
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Re-hiring previous employees might be something Amazon does for lower wage, warehouse worker role. I seriously doubt Amazon would rehire engineers from unregretted attrition or employees who were let go. Amazon is actually insanely cost foc
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I think this was already said, but most of what you’ve written here is infrastructure tooling. Here’s my personal anecdote - for what it’s worth. I’m writing application and service code in Java and C++, mostly using the same libraries I’ve
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Amazon is surprisingly not yet in that infographic in the latest lay offs. When I left Amazon last year, there were effectively two Amazons. One is a group with half baked product or service ideas, throwing garbage at a wall to see what sti
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Facebook itself seems to be screwed. I felt the same way and saw all the toxicity back in 2015. I deleted my FB account back then. Every year since then, people have been predicting Facebooks demise. Maybe this time, under current mark
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> If you're doing much beyond simple crud, I imagine you're going to want a lot of what you're describing fairly quickly. There are different models for asynchronous execution across different systems. Even then, Rust isn’
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Rust isn't just type safe or memory safe - eliminating foot-guns was a guiding principle throughout. People hate the borrow checker, but that concept of ownership eliminated broad classes of concurrency bugs. Rust was a godsend fo
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I was writing web applications back in 1999. If I needed to write a web page or a proper “app” (whatever that means) today, why would I use Rust and Web Assembly? Don’t mean to sound arrogant, but is starting with the highest level of compl
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Please stop with this. Ukraine is an independent nation that can do what it wants. They may have wanted to provoke this war as Russia threatened it. Ukraine can do whatever it wants. It was up to NATO to flat out reject any prospects o
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
“Wrong” or “right” is meaningless. The only alternative is war, and that’s what we have happening now. Tell us something. Why does it matter to the US when China tries to expand its sphere of influence over HK or islands in the Pacific? Wha
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Why does it matter if a NATO country is on the border anyway? This question, no matter how well intentioned, is irrelevant. Russia views NATO as an existential threat. It’s irrelevant whether you agree with that NATO is such a threat o
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Finally, Ukraine has the right to join any alliance it wants and for Russia to invade over that is bullshit. In geopolitics, nobody has any particular rights. Whoever has the bigger stick and better propaganda gets their way. One could
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Is this a surprise? They’ve been vocally against NATO’s eastward expansion for a long time, and Ukraine was a known line in the sand. Of course, one could argue Ukraine has a right to self determination, but we effectively egged them on and
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
When the company was doing well, the stock was doing great, etc etc, it was all good. Now that the story isn’t looking as great, we’re seeing execs get thrown under the bus. I’m not pushing any opinion on whether she did something wrong or
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
10+ year Amazon veteran. AWS has very strict rules around accessing any kind of customer data. All of Amazon has some pretty significant red tape and hurdles to get security clearance to launch any piece of working software. No, that won’t
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
They have a long ways to go to earn back my trust. CNN is outright just sensational commentary posing to be news. The broadcast outlets don’t focus on commentary, but the selective coverage and specific questions in interviews peak their ob
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I worked on an embedded system in the logistics industry where one process drove rendering on screen, and two other processes did a lot of the backend work and implemented lots of business logic. They communicated over IPC. This was design
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
There are two things I absolutely do not want to implement, ever, if I can get away with it. Any kind of dynamic page rendering: we want to write code once and re-use everywhere, in the Web browser, mobile, iOS, Android, etc. This is a fool
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
This article makes me nostalgic. Sometime in 1994 or 1995, my immigrant dad bought us a Packard Bell machine. He couldn’t afford it, and I’m not sure what drove him to make the purchase. I do know he used a credit card, couldn’t make the pa
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I was at Amazon over 10 years and did several hundred interviews. I tried my best not to contribute to the problem, but here’s my experience: First, the interviewing culture optimized for fresh computer science college grads, and specifical
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Work from home is great when you have a team of driven, motivated individuals. If your team demonstrates you can work remotely and make progress, there’s no immediate reason to go back to the office, maybe except for some team building even

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