Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day

Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by rezashirazian on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:13PM (#17545623)

My comment has nothing to do with Amazon's current financial success or growth. It's regarding their engineering team and their ability to recruit and retain top talent.

It is not a binary state of absolute destitute and top notch brilliance, it's a trend that can move one way or another and will show itself in more frequent outages, poorly rolled out products, lazy design and etc.

The plumping can keep on working for a few years even after it begins to erode. Historically there are many examples of this.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by bhouston on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:25PM (#17545703)

Maybe but your evidence is annecdotal. Good engineers leave huge companies all the time but it is usually balanced by inflow. I guess we have no evidence of inflow as compared to outflow of good engineers.

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Re:Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day by rezashirazian on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:41PM (#17545801)

I didn't reach a conclusion, I presented a possible reason knowing very well that I don't have the evidence to back it. Hence why I said "could it be that the engineering force at Amazon is no longer what it used to be?" and not "The engineering force at Amazon is no longer what it used to be."

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