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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 15
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      BTW, I don't mean this thread as an attack on MS or Google. It's more that if I could take a sabbatical from my job and intern somewhere to learn from them, Amazon would be at the top of my list and I don't think many others would put any company in my top 3 in their top 50.

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    5. Hillel‏ @hillelogram May 15
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      What would be the other two (I mean, Amazon is an unsurprising pick for you- you've already worked at Google and Microsoft. I'm just curious if either Apple or Facebook is in your top 5)

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    6. Hillel‏ @hillelogram May 15
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      Unrelated, but I'd bet you that you're 95%ing and that most programmers who aren't In The Know would love to work at Amazon

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    7. Peter Bhat Harkins‏ @pushcx May 15
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      "95%ing"?

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    8. Hillel‏ @hillelogram May 15
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      Being in the 95th percentile and assuming everybody else is as knowledgeable as you are, as in https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ 

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    9. Denis Trailin‏ @DenisTrailin May 15
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      Replying to @hillelogram @pushcx @danluu

      I'm not sure if that's exactly the same. I don't think being in the top 5% of programming would make you specifically disinclined to work at Amazon.

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    10. Hillel‏ @hillelogram May 16
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      Replying to @DenisTrailin @pushcx @danluu

      Dan is definitely in the top 5% of people with knowledge about various company's working conditions

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      Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 18
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      Replying to @hillelogram @DenisTrailin @pushcx

      I think you'll be unsurprised to find that I believe that pretty much any programmer could be 95%-ile with respect to this pretty easily (since most people I know spend almost no effort trying to figure out a job is like, even one they're about to take).

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        1. Dan Luu‏ @danluu May 18
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          But I agree that this makes my original comment suspect. I don't really know how to guess what someone who has no information about any of these companies would think (my mental model was someone who has the generic beliefs you see stated on HN/reddit/Twitter/etc.).

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