To me this is just a simple artifact of size & attention. Another example of this is stuff like Bluesky. There's a lot of reasons to hate Twitter/X, but people going "Wow, Bluesky is so amazing, there's no ads and it's…
Oops, my bad.
I meant an AWS cloud native application, yes. But I use "cloud native" in a way that actually makes sense, not the way that GCP dubbed Kubernetes and all of it's ecosystem of friends "cloud-native". "Native" development…
* RDS is a managed relational database service. You got a database? We'll run it in the cloud for you. Exact same bits and bytes as you're running locally. * Aurora is Amazon's own relational database. You can't run it…
Sounds good, but not true: https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-History/ S3 launched in 2006. EC2 didn't go GA until 2008. Elastic Block Store (a proper block store) showed up in 2008 too, actually went GA before even EC2. S3…
Andy Jassy was the first product manager on AWS, and while there is lore debates whether he "came up" with the idea of AWS (probably not), he's been on it from the beginning and through every single product. I don't…
As someone that works at AWS (but not on S3), that's wrong in like eight different ways. But the only way that matters is the core one - analysis, data, and instrumentation. AWS does not make these kinds of decisions…
I'm not lecturing them for leaving. I'm lecturing them for complaining about things that it WAS IN THEIR CONTROL TO ADDRESS. More than that - it was their actual JOB to ensure.
If you were L8 then the responsibility for setting the culture is 100% on you. L10s don't micromanage, and L7s take their cues from L8s. If you want to have fewer meetings, you can set that culture. If you want less…
I know a lot of people here are writing about how this can be done for small consulting companies, but I also saw it in Big Tech. Amazon until 2022 really genuinely exemplified this. I saw it for more than a decade…
Been with Amazon for over a decade. The frupidity used to be a huge sore spot, but being honest, is no longer a part of the culture. Sure, there are no catered buffets or massage chairs, but the old inflexible rigid…
1.5, but probably over a million of those are FC workers who are not on slack cuz they're running around the warehouse. There are just over 400,000 office employees WW So it's closer to 3.5%, and the announcement was…
Sorry dude, you don't have credibility based on "Unless your willing to put up with a huge ration of shit on a regular basis, or you make it into management," Management at AWS arguably puts up with much more shit on a…
I can't speak for Google, and Amazon doesn't have an L9, so our Distinguished Engineers are L10. But a decent bunch of them are the types of folks to have wikipedia pages: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Roskind *…
No, you like coding. Which is okay! But it's the difference between an individual carpenter making a rocking chair for himself and his family, or maybe making a couple to sell to his friends, and being a structural…
Who hurt you? Do you even like software engineering? Quit, and go make sourdough bread, shit.
Maybe so, but don't you think I talk to new employees? It's half of my job to support my whole team and deliver through others. I battled those tools when I started. I watched them get better. I've seen what new hires…
Amazon has a lot of bad internal tools, but this person's experience doesn't match mine (being here for 8 years) at all > 40% of my time trying to tame the bad internal tooling I was forced to use to submit my code, get…
Everyone's interpreting this as AWS is zipping every customer's S3 data and improved storage of their data with ztsd. That's now what Adrian said, and this is not an announcement - this was a "by-the-way" from a retired…
Since we're sharing anecdotes and that's good enough for this thread, here's my own: I'm a white guy - pretty much a typical one. My manager is a white guy - possibly even more typical, follow along North American Dude…
My main message was that NO - that's not how it is ANYWHERE at the company. Connections data isn't available to managers de-anonymized. Period. On any team. This post also has nothing to do with Amazon's business…
My primary HN account has a lot of other things in it that I'd rather not be associated with me being an "Amazonian", hence this one :) Manager performance is not tied to connections data. However, manager's performance…
That's bullshit and you're gonna scare the shit out of any junior Amazonian reading this unnecessarily. Obviously nothing is TRULY anonymous - at the end of the day there is a super secured database that HR can go into…
Every competitive has a stack ranking system whether they admit it or not. They put lipstick on a pig but everyone's getting ranked and the lowest performers getting weeded out. The whole "People get fired even if…
That's not a conspiracy theory, I work for Amazon - for a decade. I love it - best job I've ever had. And historically, while it's been a tough place to work, we've always been able to attract top talent. Partially -…
To me this is just a simple artifact of size & attention. Another example of this is stuff like Bluesky. There's a lot of reasons to hate Twitter/X, but people going "Wow, Bluesky is so amazing, there's no ads and it's…
Oops, my bad.
I meant an AWS cloud native application, yes. But I use "cloud native" in a way that actually makes sense, not the way that GCP dubbed Kubernetes and all of it's ecosystem of friends "cloud-native". "Native" development…
* RDS is a managed relational database service. You got a database? We'll run it in the cloud for you. Exact same bits and bytes as you're running locally. * Aurora is Amazon's own relational database. You can't run it…
Sounds good, but not true: https://www.awsgeek.com/AWS-History/ S3 launched in 2006. EC2 didn't go GA until 2008. Elastic Block Store (a proper block store) showed up in 2008 too, actually went GA before even EC2. S3…
Andy Jassy was the first product manager on AWS, and while there is lore debates whether he "came up" with the idea of AWS (probably not), he's been on it from the beginning and through every single product. I don't…
As someone that works at AWS (but not on S3), that's wrong in like eight different ways. But the only way that matters is the core one - analysis, data, and instrumentation. AWS does not make these kinds of decisions…
I'm not lecturing them for leaving. I'm lecturing them for complaining about things that it WAS IN THEIR CONTROL TO ADDRESS. More than that - it was their actual JOB to ensure.
If you were L8 then the responsibility for setting the culture is 100% on you. L10s don't micromanage, and L7s take their cues from L8s. If you want to have fewer meetings, you can set that culture. If you want less…
I know a lot of people here are writing about how this can be done for small consulting companies, but I also saw it in Big Tech. Amazon until 2022 really genuinely exemplified this. I saw it for more than a decade…
Been with Amazon for over a decade. The frupidity used to be a huge sore spot, but being honest, is no longer a part of the culture. Sure, there are no catered buffets or massage chairs, but the old inflexible rigid…
1.5, but probably over a million of those are FC workers who are not on slack cuz they're running around the warehouse. There are just over 400,000 office employees WW So it's closer to 3.5%, and the announcement was…
Sorry dude, you don't have credibility based on "Unless your willing to put up with a huge ration of shit on a regular basis, or you make it into management," Management at AWS arguably puts up with much more shit on a…
I can't speak for Google, and Amazon doesn't have an L9, so our Distinguished Engineers are L10. But a decent bunch of them are the types of folks to have wikipedia pages: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Roskind *…
No, you like coding. Which is okay! But it's the difference between an individual carpenter making a rocking chair for himself and his family, or maybe making a couple to sell to his friends, and being a structural…
Who hurt you? Do you even like software engineering? Quit, and go make sourdough bread, shit.
Maybe so, but don't you think I talk to new employees? It's half of my job to support my whole team and deliver through others. I battled those tools when I started. I watched them get better. I've seen what new hires…
Amazon has a lot of bad internal tools, but this person's experience doesn't match mine (being here for 8 years) at all > 40% of my time trying to tame the bad internal tooling I was forced to use to submit my code, get…
Everyone's interpreting this as AWS is zipping every customer's S3 data and improved storage of their data with ztsd. That's now what Adrian said, and this is not an announcement - this was a "by-the-way" from a retired…
Since we're sharing anecdotes and that's good enough for this thread, here's my own: I'm a white guy - pretty much a typical one. My manager is a white guy - possibly even more typical, follow along North American Dude…
My main message was that NO - that's not how it is ANYWHERE at the company. Connections data isn't available to managers de-anonymized. Period. On any team. This post also has nothing to do with Amazon's business…
My primary HN account has a lot of other things in it that I'd rather not be associated with me being an "Amazonian", hence this one :) Manager performance is not tied to connections data. However, manager's performance…
That's bullshit and you're gonna scare the shit out of any junior Amazonian reading this unnecessarily. Obviously nothing is TRULY anonymous - at the end of the day there is a super secured database that HR can go into…
Every competitive has a stack ranking system whether they admit it or not. They put lipstick on a pig but everyone's getting ranked and the lowest performers getting weeded out. The whole "People get fired even if…
That's not a conspiracy theory, I work for Amazon - for a decade. I love it - best job I've ever had. And historically, while it's been a tough place to work, we've always been able to attract top talent. Partially -…