I am former AWS and this is pretty accurate.
replyThe other factor to add here is that, with some exceptions, the whole company feels like a Rube Goldberg machine and very few people care about what happens outside their cog (because they’re not incentivized to do so).
Rube Goldberg machine attached with used bubble gum and somehow the bubblegum was chewed in all the wrong ways
replyMaybe they are former AWS employees for a reason and now want things to go better than they were at AWS.
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reply"Former" seems to an important detail here.
replyIf I worked at a place like that, I'd sure as hell work my butt of to get a job somewhere else.
replyOr in my case, actively ignore any and all recruiting from that sesspool.
If someone quits their job, do all their opinions suddenly become suspect? You're kind of damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't. Either you work for the company and you are biased one way, or you quit and now your bias is now suddenly the other way. I've joined and quit many jobs and my opinion may or may not have changed due to my change in status but it is clearly and ad hominem attack.
replyNot the OP, but:
replyThe point was not that their opinion is suspect, the point was that they are former because people who care about the customer get fired and/or that everyone who cared is former, so nobody who is left cares.
Yes, I am a former AWS employee.
replyI got put on Focus because my "contributions were not coming through" to leadership.