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Aug 18, 2015 20:19
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http://qz.com/482080/dear-jeff-bezos-i-wish-you-had-asked-for-my-feedback-sooner/ from the wife of the dude who apparently came up with the idea of not dumping untested code (i.e. all of it) into the warehouses from octobber to january quote:Eventually, my husband’s team was whittled down to himself, his manager and just one other developer. This meant he was expected to be on-call every three weeks. “Our” all-time record was 64 different pages, mostly answered outside of business hours. As his one-woman pit crew, it was my responsibility to wake up with him when he was paged in the middle of the night, to pull over somewhere on the highway to find him WiFi if he was paged on the road, and to make sure that our lives never involved traveling anywhere more than 15 minutes from an internet connection.
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Aug 18, 2015 21:28
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sounds like a good deal for a decent six figs
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Aug 18, 2015 21:32
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RBC posted:sounds like a good deal for a decent six figs ("fault-tolerant" lmao)
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Aug 18, 2015 21:40
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i dont touch computers at my job i do real work
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Aug 18, 2015 21:41
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RBC posted:i do real work lmao sounds like a lovely way to make money
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Aug 18, 2015 21:44
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Valeyard posted:yeah gently caress trying to weasel the money out of them The one employee we had poached by them was supposedly offered 45k straight up signing with another 45k in stock that vested after two years.
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Aug 18, 2015 22:51
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TerminalRaptor posted:The one employee we had poached by them was supposedly offered 45k straight up signing with another 45k in stock that vested after two years. They're on to something with offering huge signing bonuses that you only get if you stay double the amount of time of the average employee. ADINSX fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Aug 19, 2015 |
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Aug 19, 2015 00:19
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companies should publish the average tenure of employees when they quit. amazon is growing fast so that number is pretty misleading
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Aug 19, 2015 00:22
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like i don't doubt that amazon is a horrible company to work for, but i'd take a huge signing bonus and the salary to go with it and coast through 2 years there and then leave
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Aug 19, 2015 00:23
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Ludwig van Halen posted:like i don't doubt that amazon is a horrible company to work for, but i'd take a huge signing bonus and the salary to go with it and coast through 2 years there and then leave divide total salary + signing bonus by the amount of overtime you're expected to work and it ends up not being good money.
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Aug 19, 2015 00:46
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I get paid to count in fives
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Aug 19, 2015 00:47
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i get amazon recruiters emailing me with an absolutely dismal, half-baked, no-effort LinkedIn profile so if you really wanna spend two years as Bezos' bitch for a signing bonus it's probably not that hard
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Aug 19, 2015 00:49
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the amazon interview is a waste of time. i did it for aws solutions architect and it was like, 8 hours. and then they offered me a job 3 months later when i already accepted something else gg 
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Aug 19, 2015 00:51
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same with rackspace. wtf is with companies and all day interviews
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Aug 19, 2015 00:53
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:companies should publish the average tenure of employees when they quit. amazon is growing fast so that number is pretty misleading
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Aug 19, 2015 00:53
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pram posted:same with rackspace. wtf is with companies and all day interviews have you had the fun multiday interview yet? in person just q/a with various teams day 1. tech/coding exercises day 2 with various people. then a take home long form coding exercise day 3. had a local start up ask if i was willing to engage in that
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Aug 19, 2015 00:55
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no but lol at the hubris
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Aug 19, 2015 00:56
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born on a buy you posted:have you had the fun multiday interview yet? in person just q/a with various teams day 1. tech/coding exercises day 2 with various people. then a take home long form coding exercise day 3. had a local start up ask if i was willing to engage in that why yes, my time is completely worthless.
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Aug 19, 2015 00:57
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pram posted:no but lol at the hubris i'm curious if anyone actually does it or if the reply is always "lol no" like mine was
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Aug 19, 2015 00:57
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born on a buy you posted:divide total salary + signing bonus by the amount of overtime you're expected to work and it ends up not being good money. idk i would think that if you have no intention of sticking around you wouldn't feel compelled to put forth much effort just enough to not get fired i guess, but idk how much leeway you have there
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Aug 19, 2015 01:02
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The sf fed interviewed me for a day then took a month to decide whether to go another round (they didn't)
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Aug 19, 2015 01:04
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Gazpacho posted:To the extent that they "don't do those things anymore" I expect its because newer teams are run somewhat competently, whereas the oldest groups, with non user facing code that originally ran on hpux, have been condemned to an eternal sysiphean nightmare well, fc systems was the page-you-very-two-hours constant rewrite joke when i was looking to join in '05 and a few years afterwards. now it's been turned around. i hear good things about aws and the kessel project too. kindle is legacy now and digital a little messed up. retail probably sucks too. so, hit or miss really what the article and all the discussion don't mention is it all comes down to your manager. if they suck you will be miserable because they won't - fend off incoming poo poo from other teams - maintain focus for your team to minimize priority and feature churn - listen to you when you say you need to pay off tech debt or adjust dates or whatever and most importantly - rep you well during review time having a pushover manager means you'll never get good reviews. if they don't put in a good promo doc for you, likewise you will never be promoted. finding a good manager is the number one success differentiator at amazon and it's basically out of your hands lol. afaik there's basically no training for managers to improve either. some dev wants to climb the pole and switches roles and then good luck.
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Aug 19, 2015 01:06
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pram posted:then they offered me a job 3 months later when i already accepted something else gg this poo poo dumb as gently caress. yeah lemme wait months in a world where silence means no
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Aug 19, 2015 01:27
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a while back i was interviewing for a marketing director role and they sent me a 'test' that was basically "put together an end to end marketing campaign for [their just announced but way far out] game with a budget of $X, using real world agencies, ideas, timelines and events!"
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Aug 19, 2015 01:35
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Beast of Bourbon posted:a while back i was interviewing for a marketing director role and they sent me a 'test' that was basically "put together an end to end marketing campaign for [their just announced but way far out] game with a budget of $X, using real world agencies, ideas, timelines and events!" how many rare pepes did you send them
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Aug 19, 2015 01:36
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Beast of Bourbon posted:a while back i was interviewing for a marketing director role and they sent me a 'test' that was basically "put together an end to end marketing campaign for [their just announced but way far out] game with a budget of $X, using real world agencies, ideas, timelines and events!"
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Aug 19, 2015 01:37
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:well, fc systems was the page-you-very-two-hours constant rewrite joke when i was looking to join in '05 and a few years afterwards. now it's been turned around. i hear good things about aws and the kessel project too. kindle is legacy now and digital a little messed up. retail probably sucks too. so, hit or miss this is true to some extent in all companies. but the worse the culture is, the more it matters.
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Aug 19, 2015 01:39
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:how many rare pepes did you send them none but i just copied their closest competitors marketing plan as best as I could tell since it was the least amount of effort. sent it in, never heard back, they're in a tail spin getting killed in the press. still don't have a marketing director or any marketing people. they have a VP though.
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Aug 19, 2015 01:41
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lol most people at Amazon don't even know kessel is a thing. dont jeopardize fuzzy wife like that.
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Aug 19, 2015 01:47
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great timing guyquote:Good morning fuzzy! recruiter foo here with Amazon Recruiting. It’s great to eMeet you and I hope this email finds you well!
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Aug 19, 2015 01:49
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always send a rare pepe
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Aug 19, 2015 01:49
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lol like any of these companies are worth breaking out the top shelf pepes
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Aug 19, 2015 01:51
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also I'm pretty sure I've met fuzzy wife. what did she think of stephs bit in the nytimes article?
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Aug 19, 2015 01:52
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she didn't like the 'authorized to say something by the company' rider on every quote i think. these are showing up around town now 
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Aug 19, 2015 01:55
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:she didn't like the 'authorized to say something by the company' rider on every quote i think. that did strike me as odd as well, but on the other hand it probably should be noted that their comments are praising for a reason..
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Aug 19, 2015 10:26
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refleks posted:such a convoluted solution to a problem. amazon just removed the toilets from its office... i guess at amazon you're just always expected to be full of poo poo
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Aug 19, 2015 16:29
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i guess at amazon you're just always expected to be full of poo poo http://i.imgur.com/tTrTFfb.gifv
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solid effort
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