That means no open source work worrying about my GitHub profile, no BS “thought leadership” posts on LinkedIn. Nothing.
When I get off of work, I shut my computer down and live my life - exercising, travel, spending time with friends and family, etc.
But with that I do feel that I've had a couple of jobs slip through the cracks. Not enough exposure.
The department I worked for at AWS had a very easy to use open source approval process to open source work we did from scratch for a client as long as it didn’t have client information we could put it here after approval.
https://github.com/aws-samples
I was able to legally/ethically fork all of the work I submitted (MIT Licensed) to my own profile after I left. But, no one cared or even looked at my open source profile.
However, I was also a major contributor to a popular open source “AWS Solution” that was big in its niche.
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
That did lead to two interviews and one job offer in 2023 year.
Almost all of my projects and the “solution” are obsolete now. I was able to use most of them last year with some tweaking.
If you mean do they cost more to develop than they are currently making for income, that’s how tech companies work - high fixed costs for initial development and low marginal costs that are spread across the customers.
They have started canceling projects where the cost of continued development doesn’t make a direct or indirect profit and don’t add to the ecosystem. The two I can think of most recently are CodeCommit (a very bad hosted git repository) and Cloud9 (hosted development environment).
Surprised to hear they’re canceling some of them. That usually scares away developers.
Internally, Amazon/AWS has always been a shitty company for employees. But they always were somewhat innovative and long term focused. I saw things going down hill by the end of 2022. They are definitely a “Day 2” company now and not out in front of trends
As if the original RTO policies weren’t bad enough for instance, now they are forcing their “field by design” workers to be in the office 5 days a week when they aren’t at a customers site. These are the consultants (full time employees), sales, SAs etc who spend most of their time interacting with the customer and where you rarely have your internal teammates in your same office.
Before anyone asked why I worked there if I knew it was shitty. I worked remotely the entire time, it looked great on my resume and I like money. It definitely opened some doors