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What is "(sic)" about "they are working to restore the data for the 313 items still affected"?
EC2 or S3 showing red in any region literally requires personal approval of the CEO of AWS.
Did lambda@edge finally move lambda function execution to the edge cloudfront POPs? For years it actually ran them in the closest AWS region.
The ec2 or s3 dashboards showing red literally requires approval from ajassy himself irrc
The status page is entirely manually updated.
At Amazon, all employees are trained not to use the words: "marketplace", "platform", and a few others.
Right, that's how I get my work done so fast. Sure I could "be superbly valuable" but there doesn't seem to be any motivation to do so. The stick (a PIP) isn't going to hit me because I'm above average, and the carrot (additional compensation) is inevitable because I'm already a shoe-in for promotion as the top achiever on the team.
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ta20200710 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.
This last year I finally landed a SDE job at a FAANG company! However, I'm considering quitting because I am not happy.The good: I get paid better than my last jobs. I can browse internal resources to satisfy my curiosity about how things work.The bad: Basically no work gets done and there's no motivation to do any.The dev tools, docs and tech debt impart such a slow iteration speed that even...
> large organizations
Interestingly Amazon just finished a multi-year effort to migrate off MediaWiki internally to comply with an infosec mandate that PHP is banned company wide.
Amazon has MDM (Airwatch). AFAIK there are not generally company phones or phone plans. Monthly limit on reimbursement for phone business expenditures in the US is $50, although I think you can also expense the device itself.