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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by serge2k on Thursday July 28, 2016 @04:45PM (#12183010)
> It's hard work. It's important work. It's demanding work. It's not for everyone.

It's needlessly hard and too much of it is unimportant.

Do you really think people at Google/Facebook/Microsoft/etc... aren't working hard? Aren't working on things they think are important? The job isn't demanding?

Yet the horror stories consistently come from Amazon.

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Re:My Interviews with Amazon by ex_amazon_sde on Thursday July 28, 2016 @05:19PM (#12183252)
The company has a pattern of bruteforcing through problems using lots of sweat instead of thinking and planning more. Almost ironically, Amazon has a principle called "Bias for Action".
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