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