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    1. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      Where does engineering rep come from? Here's a Google engineer slagging on Amazon engineering, which they say mediocre. I don't think this is an unusual opinion, I've heard this from people both inside and outside of Google. Google has the best engineering, Amazon is mediocre.pic.twitter.com/EPLwjpUytT

      "Amazon clearly does not compete by hiring the best engineers. Rather, they compete by throwing money at the problem and undercutting everyone else, getting by with mediocre engineering." -- googlemike
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    2. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      When I worked on cloud at MS, it was the same -- although AWS was clearly in the lead, a major concern was that Google's superior engineering would allow them to crush AWS and Azure; "preparing for a knife fight with Amazon, but Google is going to bring a gun to this knife fight"

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    3. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      But when I looked at execution speed on actual projects (via backchannel communications), AWS was smoking both us and Google. In one case, I heard that they got the idea for a project from our product announcement and they still shipped before we did.

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    4. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      They weren't moving fast and breaking things -- when I looked at 3rd party measured uptime, AWS was clearly #1 and we were going back and forth with Google for #2. This understates AWS's edge since they had fewer global outages and less flakiness that didn't count as downtime.

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    5. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      The more I looked into this, the more impressed I was with Amazon engineering. But AFAICT this never translated into any kind of reputational change. I don't think this is unique to Amazon either. When I compare general reputation to what I can observe, they seem uncorrelated.

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    6. Josh Simmons‏ @dotstdy May 15
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      On a scale of 1 to 10 how much of this is folk lore spill over from Steve Yegge's blog. :)

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    7. Sean Blakey‏ @pythonista May 15
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      THIS. Post-Google Yegge slags Google in language eerily similar to how post-Amazon Yegge slagged Amazon.

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    8. Denis Trailin‏ @DenisTrailin May 15
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      Replying to @pythonista @dotstdy @danluu

      There's definitely a type of blogger that the moment they switch companies they will start criticizing their old company and extolling the virtues of their new company. Each company they said was amazing becomes terrible the moment they move on.

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    9. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      Replying to @DenisTrailin @pythonista @dotstdy

      Phew! Good thing I avoid this by criticizing past, present, and future employers! Hard to know what future employers I might have, but I try to cover all the bases.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      Replying to @danluu @DenisTrailin and

      My serious comment is, in my current job, I've never failed to close a candidate and have convinced a lot of people who were uninterested to interested to apply; my "one weird trick" is that I'm honest about the downsides. Most pitches are oversold, I think honesty is refreshing

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      Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      Replying to @danluu @DenisTrailin and

      If you're talking to me, the job's not perfect, but at least you know what the downsides are If you're talking to someone who says the job is amazing in every dimension, all you know is that they're snowing you, you're going to be surprised by the downsides when you take the job

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        1. Denis Trailin‏ @DenisTrailin May 15
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          Replying to @danluu @pythonista @dotstdy

          Sorry if I wasn't clear, but this was not a comment about you. What I consider dishonest are bloggers/influencers who will join some company, write about how it's the greatest thing since sliced bread then soon after leaving write a post trashing said company.

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