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Bezos has been selling his shares for years.
The market is still betting that Amazon can exploit more people faster every year and earn money (i.e. profit) from them.
This has existed for at least two years: https://www.duolingo.com/stories
Yes, it does not cover every language but the intent is to address that ( perceived ) complaint.
I disagree that an actual coursebook is more helpful.
I used Duo for 6 months prior to moving to a Germany. It gave me an incredible confidence boost to be able to at least understand what was going on around me.
After living in Berlin for 6 months I did a course and I was far ahead of others who had taken formal courses before.
It has been 2 years since I left Germany, I still do my Duo daily and have continued doing German courses.
It has helped maintain my minimal ability.
> it also likely depends on person
Indeed. My partner at the time did the same as me and Duo did not work for her at all.
That makes it way easier to meet an URA target.
EVERY manager I've interacted with at Amazon looks at CRUX statistics -- it is the actual reason that they exist.
My current manage (5 year badge employee btw) is counting my code. We are both L6s and he has shared with me the various target CR each level is expect to do (per week).
For L6 it is 4 (in the AWS org) per week.
The leadership principals also say "hire and develop the best", which ought to mean that they would be doing the damnedest to keep people.
But they don't. I've seen three people Pivoted in the last 6 months -- two of them had been with Amazon (AWS) for over 4 years.
These people did not "suddenly" become bad, or shit at their job, or etc. What happened is that they were stacked ranked, and they were at the bottom. The job was, and remains, exactly the same.
Which is why stack ranking is stupid. Same job. Same person. One year you are meeting the bar. The next you are the worst at it.
It represents your lived experience.
(I'd also say that with only three different company cultures that you have personally expirenced, your perspective is skewed).
What you are missing is that you do not see similar news reports about (say) Google, Netflix, etc. Sure there will always be individual stories in any organisation but the fact that there are *continual* stories about Amazon in all areas (blue collar, white collar) indicates that this is a systemic, widespread problem that they are either unaware of (unlikely) or do not care about.
Whether it is not caring (probably) or unawareness you have to be worried if an organisation like Amazon is this complacent.
[ note: I work at AWS, and I've experienced all this bullshit from the inside. When people I know ask me for a referral in, I tell them to run away. I'm looking to leave shortly ]
How, exactly?
If we both compiled hello.c (a prototypical hello world program), and exchanged binaries; how would you verify my build wasn't malicious?
Quip / WorkDocs means you start getting comments, highlights and other things from people -- which are then visible to everyone else at the meeting.
If there was a way for you to personally highlight your concerns during the read-through and then the presenter could display them all at once that would be great.
By not having that ability, it tends to mean the person with the "most authority" has their comment taken seriously and addressed straight away -- just like having the "loudest voice" in a meeting works against allowing everyone to contribute.
You could choose to use them (for example, the self education one) and get SEK5000-SEK10000 (~€500-€1000) BUT then you would have to fill out a tax return.
That is just one exemption. Another one relevant for our field is working from home. Similar amount.
In order to claim those, though, you will need to file a tax return. If you do not consider that money to be worth the time, then not filing one is a good choice.
The Australian system - which could definitely be improved by at least pre-filling things - forces you to actively choose to leave the money behind. The default in the UK, Europe and the Nordic countries is that the money is kept by the taxaxtion office.
Defaults are powerful. And they thank you for entrusting them with your extra SEK that you do not want to claim.
The fact that your experience tells you that "deal equals contract" is strange.
In my experience I have had plenty of "deals" not materialise for one reason or another.
To extrapolate that the BBC is printing bullshit is basically to say that if you have not experienced something, then it is worthless.
The BBC is not lying. You are being shrill for no good reason and are relying on and extrapolating from your limited experience of deals.
Two of three things you've said here are true.
40 hours a week would guarantee you will not be effective.
Stack ranking, illegal in many other countries, is known to produce this (hostile culture) kind of result amongst employees and managers.
I wonder how other common law systems handle this (not a lawyer, am genuinely asking).
common in other cloud environments, they just give you a longer runway / head's up on it
2) price increases
true
3) shitty customer service
same as azure and aws -- google, though, have a crap reputation to begin with. With the other two, it was a surprise.
4) continued existance of google cloud
article is over a year old; and - frankly - aws is likely to spin-off from amazon sooner than google cloud being shutdown
no sources, that is just my gut feel.
The market is easily large enough to have 4 - 6 global players *AND* 2 - 3 regional / country-specific ones as well.
Yes, exactly.
Just because some people are in the EU parliament via a democratic vote does not mean they are accountable to anyone.
Least of all, you know, voters.
Sheesh.
You have clearly got a number of hobby horses you want to flog. But the thing with people who flog horses is, they often do not realise they are already dead.
They are not sophisticated, they just do not want people leeching large amounts of data via the connection (which they basically perceive as http/1 or http/2).
Anyone using "something else" is basically noise.
With a website, if you want to push it onto a Content Delivery Network (CDN) it is easy to change www.example.com to point (via a CNAME record) to the right place.
If, however, you want to do that with the just example.com and also want to run things like mail, you can not use the CNAME record.
The why is long and boring, but that is the situation right now.
The only source I've seen cited for this comes from 2012 (https://www.pcworld.com/article/253335/ios_more_profitable_f...) and relates to Google getting more profit from iOS device users than Android device users.
Do you have anything from the last year or two? Or are you basing your comment on the article from 2012?
If via Multicast DNS, what stops you from publishing TLSA records as well?
The reward structure for quite a few of these (FAANG) companies is geared towards launching new features and/or products.
There is little incentive to improve existing software (as an IC). Which is why, for example, every "feature" at Amazon has a press release.
Behind every press release is a promotion for someone.
I've never been in a situation where I wanted it decreased, but I guess you could setup an account and ask for a decrease.
If enough people ask for it, they might make it something you can do yourself.
There support used to be bad, now it is atroscious.
The details of my situation are not important, however I was in contact with Christian Krabus - Head of Customer Care (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-krabus-075a7887/ who it appears no longer works for N26).
I would regular have to ask for status updates; email the managing directors and only then would things get progressed.
My issue stemmed from May 2019 right until Mar 2020; when he stopped responding (and according to linkedin, left the firm).
Basically, every support interaction required multiple pulling of teeth. That should not be how a bank interacts with you, especially when they have your money.
I now use another bank in Berlin, just a normal one, and the interactions are about average ( I ask a question; they take a week to get back to me -- but they *tell* me it will take a week).
Later: Appears they have lowered the threshold to £20000 now (see https://transferwise.com/help/articles/2961856/tips-for-gett...)
See: https://www.austrac.gov.au/business/how-comply-guidance-and-...
I have it good authority [1], that quite a few local Australian banks report when the threshold is 1000 or more.
For international transfers any amount must be reported:
https://www.austrac.gov.au/business/how-comply-guidance-and-...
[1]: My father works there.
Btw: the URL for Six maps is: https://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/
Not sure if it was changed but it took me a few tries to find the right permutation
I have had orders where they have refused to refund. When I have later, internally, escalated, they have relented and issued a refund.
There is even a dedicated section (can't recall if on inside.amazon.com or the wiki ) to explain the process of how to internally escalate a bad customer support experience on behalf of your friends and family.
If Amazon (retail) is as customer focused as they claim to be this should not be necessary.
I've been a customer since 2000 and an employee for a while now.
Disclaimer: I hear in the US it is totally different and support is a lot better.
Config is due to Brazil (and later Peru) requiring it; especially for rebuilds. At this point Config being necessary is orthogonal to Perl.
In practice, they are not.
> The economic churn. More churn, > more prosperity because we are > creating movement of spending > money that came from capital to > keep alive a thriving economy.
And then you claim that taxing the rich will not work.
Why would that also be churn? If they have to divest, sell things or buys things that is churn.
You welfare state argument, falls flat when you consider the high taxes for people located in Nordic countries.