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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by hkmurakami on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:03PM (#13562267)
What about Walmart Labs? From what I understand there are some talented folks over there.
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by blackaspen on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:25PM (#13562467)
While there are still a reasonable number of very talented engineers at Labs, having talent is sort of meaningless if you stifle their ability to actually ship (which Walmart at large does very well).
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by DaiPlusPlus on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:58PM (#13562751)
Walmart Labs isn't their main IT/dev division though - aren't they more like what Bell Labs was to AT&T?
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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by wyclif on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:22PM (#13564641)
This is true. For instance, until recently (I think), Joshua Schachter (@joshu) of del.icio.us fame worked for them.
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