Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
by hellbanner on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:51PM
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This is good. And for the software engineers, great.
I've heard from people doing the grunt work at amazon -- warehouse staff -- that Amazon incentivises employees to rat out each other for mishandling, late time etc, fostering intense competition
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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption
by mabbo on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:27PM
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I spent time in the fulfillment centers, writing software for them. I definitely didn't see that sort of thing. There's no need- the software tracked everything they did. Low performer would be found and retained or 'promoted to customer' without the need for anyone to 'rat out'.
Plus, managing humans in a 'rat out' system would be incredibly inefficient. Now you need lots of employees just to listen to the ratting!