Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer

Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by burtonator on Monday August 05, 2019 @01:00PM (#20615769)

These things can always be childish when working with a bad interviewer. I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work because I wasn't covering small minutia details. Interviewing is an insane process. This is why building networks is more valuable so you're basically being interviewed by people you've already worked with.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by bsg75 on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:51PM (#20618788)

> I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work because I wasn't covering small minutia details.

I'm going to be in trouble when it comes time to interview again someday. I am not nearly as accepting of muscle flexing (anti-social behavior) as I was 10 years ago.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by lacampbell on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:33PM (#20620414)

You and me both. I had to walk out of an interview because the interviewer had become borderline rude and I could not think of anything at all professional to respond with.

Here's to future self-employment!

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by oarabbus_ on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:06PM (#20621042)

How'd you walk out? "Sorry, but I'd like to respect both of our time and end my candidacy here"?

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by lacampbell on Monday August 05, 2019 @09:34PM (#20621205)

I literally shot up out of my seat, offered my hand and said 'thanks for your time!' and got the hell out of there.

Not the smoothest, but it was just time for me to leave.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by posixplz on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:35PM (#20620838)

Makes me appreciate working for a large cloud with a core value “don’t be a jerk.”

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by baseballMan on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:07AM (#20622032)

Is this Microsoft? If so, good to know they've adopted this policy!

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by posixplz on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:24AM (#20625400)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, actually. Oracle gets a lot of flak on HN, and some of it is justified. But the reality is that the team working on OCI is top-notch. And the product itself is quite compelling.

Oracle as an enterprise/legal behemoth is very different from the cloud transformation business unit.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by jfz on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:44AM (#20624268)

Sounds like Pivotal, which literally has "Be Kind" as one of the three core values.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by hinkley on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:48PM (#20618077)

I get too distracted wondering if these people are always like this or just in interviews.

The silver lining is that I don't get jobs where the interviewers make me uncomfortable, so I don't have to deal with them more than once.

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Re:Why I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer by imtringued on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:58AM (#20623770)

Sockets are easy. First there was the big bang...

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