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I feel for the guy—taking the post at face value, it sounds like he had a shitty team and a shitty manager. At the same time, this post does not make me want to hire him and in fact quite the opposite. He seems to be fairly junior, but even at that level I cringe at measuring ones self in terms of lines of code written (though lines of code deleted is a metric I can get behind).

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He's the hero we don't deserve. Nobody wants to hire him because every manager is sort of afraid they themselves are sort of ass holes and will get called out. I think a good number of people who think this are right on themselves being ass holes.

His job history agrees with you. It has been less than 2 years since he graduated, in which he has held 4 jobs. 3 months at his first job, then 4 months, 5 months and 10 months at Amazon.

I would not take his given statement at face value.

This is a relevant insight, I do not understand why it got downvoted.

Even though Amazon has a history of such events, we should care about the bigger picture, yet be skeptical about the individual claims anyway!

Agreed, from my personal experience, I think the criticisms of Amazon are valid. But at the same time, if you have switched jobs 3 times in 18 months, you need to do some research and take some time to understand that you have a responsibility to find a job that is a good fit for you. If you think lines of code is the most important metric in how good someone is as a developer, then great, look for a job where management feels the same way.

His profile said he graduated in 2021. He joined Amazon in May 2021. 5 months was a teaching assistant at his university. 4 months was the right months for a summer internship.

People usually call those internships but he's gone and described them as full jobs. Unfortunate. The timing lines up for a winter and then summer internship / coop role.

So you need to be an experienced dev to speak up against a toxic work environment? I do also cringe when I see comments like yours attacking the guy for doing something you wouldn't do. He probably mentioned the amount of lines of codes as a way of saying he did put a lot of effort(is common knowledge that on itself is a shitty metric). Maybe he, also wouldn't want to be hired by someone like you either, not would I.

I'm not saying he shouldn't speak up against a toxic work environment. I'm saying he's doing it on LinkedIn in a way that makes him look bad and could hurt his future career prospects.

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