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Re:20 years on AWS and never not my job by surgical_fire on Saturday April 11, 2026 @04:45AM (#47728772)
No, it was really not. His tale is from mid-2000s, not from mid-1980s.

In mid 2000s these companies were already operating in the billions and their engineers were already well compensated, and it was known.

Hell, "Cracking the Coding Interview" came out in 2008. Getting a job at those companies at the time was already something coveted because of how well they paid.

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Re:20 years on AWS and never not my job by aleph_minus_one on Saturday April 11, 2026 @07:05AM (#47729514)
> In mid 2000s these companies were already operating in the billions and their engineers were already well compensated, and it was known.

Perhaps in the USA, but in many other countries this does for sure not hold.

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