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I will make an exception for Bezos. The people behind AWS and the Amazon site are unparalleled programmers and designers. Bezos didn't code/design it, but he had the vision. Essentially he loves invention, it's what propelled Amazon to enormous heights.

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ha! worked at amazon on detail page, cart, checkout.

nothing unparalleled. lots of java and perl mason code. very poor and broken abstractions. missing unit test. missing integration test. poor developing experience. horrible culture of burnout and throwing people under bus, people cry at work. it was H1B train where you over work under threat of being fired and then need to leave country because visa system stupid.

You are describing most of the big tech companies. Microsoft Twitter Tesla Facebook Modern day slaves. I call this Indo Pacific slave trade

Haha I worked on some of these teams and can confirm. It’s a meat grinder with code delivery at all costs

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