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I have considered it. I don't see the pattern widely, and I'm watching for it. I've seen teams implode because of it, and other toxic patterns, so it's not that they're not there... they just seem to be in the minority. There are teams I won't send friends to work for, for sure.

No, far from it; I'm not HR, nowhere close, but I am senior enough that people sometimes listen to me. I'd like to make things better for people if I can, and part of that is "knowing where the problems are". Believe me or don't, it's no skin off my ass, but that's the opposite of my goal.

Like I said, I don't doubt that they happen, but given that you've also left the company and seem to have hit one of these areas of toxicity yourself, I'm not surprised you'd think so. Who was your last manager? I'm curious if it's anybody I know?

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Oh, wow, what an amazing take. You owe me a new keyboard.

Our technical staff is probably closer to 100k than it is to 20k. It was 20k when I started over 10 years ago.

That "CYA" response really doesn't feel like "us" to me, at least not the AWS side. I can't speak to the experiences on the store side, nor on the devices side. Over in AWS, we practice the "blameless postmortem" model you'll read about from time to time, and it is very rare to see any professional or personal consequences beyond some light joking come about from "breaking prod"

To that point, I know personally the engineers who triggered several of the AWS outages you will have read about in the news over the last decade and more. Some of them are still with us, some have been promoted since then.

Current (long tenured, moderately senior) AWS engineer here. I've been at the company long enough it's pretty clear that I'm a "good culture fit", so take what I'm saying with that in mind.

While I absolutely believe that there are pockets of the company that work this way, more because of sheer scale than anything systemic, I have sat in the annual ratings meeting for engineers enough times, in enough organizations within the company, that I am pretty confident that this experience isn't universal.

It sucks that this author had this experience, and I wish they had said which team that was, so that I could use what social cachet I have to steer people clear of it from inside. Nobody should have that experience.

Is this the one? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gemini-photos-gallery-cleaner/...

(There are a lot of "Gemini" bitcoin apps, apparently...)

Indeed it is, as are many of the older, more grognard corners of IRC.

Also, IRC is still alive.

In the post-nuclear-holocaust wasteland where only cockroaches survive, the cockroaches will use IRC to rebuild.

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"

Plus, you know, https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

We do actually vend a JDK. Yes, it's conservative. It's also necessary.

Yeah, I work adjacent to the Apollo org (and have worked near Pfrheak, too. Hi!). I would love to see a HackerNews commenter's idea of what it would take to re-implement Apollo. I'll bring popcorn.

correct.