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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by sulam on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @02:56AM (#13061565)
Yes, seriously legacy software (still a lot of Perl in their production web code, including ancient Perl template engines) and the on-calls are truly bad. AWS is more modern, but still not entirely awesome from what I've heard.

On the plus side, hiring people out of there after a year is usually pretty easy.

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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by Tempest1981 on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @04:41AM (#13061956)
What are the typical on-calls?
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Re:Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to ... by sulam on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:20AM (#13063528)
You are paged most nights and often more than once a night during your rotation and you are on rotation a lot.
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