stuart_marshall

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   by stuart_marshall 8y ago

   If you look at the lists of ranked baby names by year, you'll see a massive drop off of Alexas about when Amazon shipped.
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   by stuart_marshall 8y ago

   Software and organizations are always much more complicated than you would realize as an outsider. Most of those 10k employees are probably not software engineers. Businesses have many other functions. From a software standpoint, any system
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   by stuart_marshall 8y ago

   Some companies, notably Google and Amazon, have maintenance of customer trust as a core principle. This seems to be working. Generally, people trust a lot of their private data to these companies and the companies do not abuse it. Microsoft
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   by stuart_marshall 8y ago

   Yes, every group in Amazon has its own recruiters who largely find candidates independently. However, Amazon does have a good central database of everybody who is contacted, who last talked with them, what happened with the contact, etc. An
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   by stuart_marshall 8y ago

   Love that this feature finally released. I was a dev manager on DynamoDB years ago when we first started working on this. I left three years ago and had almost given up hope that this feature would see the light of day. The great thing abou