An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015)

Re:An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015) by MattGaiser on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:44PM (#23263965)

> never make it clear that they may need to have "pager duty" or otherwise work outside of 8-5.

Yes, these expectations should be made clear from the beginning.

I suspect they don't as they would be even more desperate to hire.

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Re:An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015) by notyourwork on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:50PM (#23265065)

Amazon is open about engineers owning their on-call duty. This should not be a surprise to a new hire.

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Re:An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015) by dang on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:16AM (#23269154)

Personal attacks and name-calling are bannable offenses here. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting to HN? We'd be grateful.

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Re:An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015) by notyourwork on Friday May 22, 2020 @06:46PM (#23277938)

I’m not sure what in my comment offended you. Sorry.

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