amzn-sdethrow

This is a weird one. I am sure it happens in certain pockets, but I can't say that I have ever heard or directly experienced any form of casteism in my 16 years in North America. Having said that, my background is Tamil brahmin but I am not religious, don't go to temples, and don't wear a poonal (identifying sacred thread). As naive as it may sound, I hope my 6 year old son never hears the word caste in his life.

Why do you think looking up someone's code commit history should have negative repurcussions? Every tech employee within the company has access to this information. Same with the tech survey that lets you see a manager's results.

As an Amazon employee, I'm interested in seeing how much credence this story has and how much I should support the author's cause. I clearly don't know the details, but what I can see gives me pause (not original author you replied to)

Anyone within Amazon can look at code contributions. The manager results he's talking about are also public. I think this gives a sense for the other side of the story here.

Code contributions are public even if you don't have commit permissions on team packages. You can look at anyone's code reviews.

Caveat being secret projects. However that's not the case here.

There is a yearly tech survey with a lot of detailed questions about your experience at Amazon and about your manager and team. The results for every single Manager are public. The scores impact a manager's overall rating. I pay a lot of attention to the responses when considering new teams internally.