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There is a comment above you from an Amazon Principal Engineer: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jcrites

His profile says "Architect and cofounder of Simple Email Service. Creator of Cloud Desktop, a cloud-based development environment used by most Amazon engineers. Technical lead for Amazon's strategy for using AWS."

Can't get more "From the horse's mouth than that"

We are generally asked not to comment on stuff like this because of how easy it is to reveal confidential internal details.

For the record, the article is mostly wildly out of date, but others have already corrected the record.

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I'm aware current employees comment over here. Two things to mention: principal/architect roles are always based not only on a merit of skill but politics. So, taken with a grain of salt.

Moreover, if you inspect the person's comments you will notice how "legally" clean they are. Even the phrasing looks the same for both comments "based on my experience", "this information if wrongful" etc. Looks like those were refined by the legal team before posted.

I wonder all that, because since my first engagement with AWS and Amazon recruiting around five years ago the engineering tone did not change. That concerns in a way that putting an effort to get a job there may turn out a major disappointment.

The cutthroat approach is nice sometimes as it adds the taste of competition but the whole noise seems like you're about to get buried rather than played or burned out.

translation of the first two paragraphs is "I've decided what I think already and if you say you work at Amazon now and are happy it's prima facie evidence that you can't be trusted to be objective about it"

Sort of.

If it's a liability to say nasty stuff about the employer and most of the ex-ones throw some heat the nearest possible conclusion is that the truth tends to bow to statements that are observed as outdated and controversial by present employees.

It just can't be a smear campaign against just that one company.

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