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Re:Amazon’s Interview Questions And Why I Don’t Work At Amazon by carbocation on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:25PM (#6582585)
asuffield didn't malign Java: he seemed to imply judgment about the fact that the company seemed to be converting working code from LANGUAGE1 to LANGUAGE2 for the purposes of being a LANGUAGE2 company.
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Re:Amazon’s Interview Questions And Why I Don’t Work At Amazon by asuffield on Sunday October 20, 2013 @10:20PM (#6582816)
In particular about this being the only major project they were working on. They didn't just rewrite, they stopped doing everything else in order to prioritise it. The mind boggles.
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