1. Amazon actually doesn't have a large direct presence in the Silicon Valley. They have only recently started to actively grow there. And yes, they're hiring.
2. But more importantly, when a department is downsized or moved - its employees are NOT fired. They are given freedom to shop around for a team to join.
3. The bit about flying coach is true, though. It's a company-wide policy that everyone flies coach, even VPs. Though you can use frequent flier miles from Amazon flights for your own personal travel.
I've been working at Amazon for 6 months (after an acquisition) and I haven't yet heard of anyone asked to work on weekends.
The only major exception I've seen is on-call people - they are expected to take care of any issues that might happen at any time when they're on-call.
Bullshit. All the states require for citizens to register for elections, and that registration requires an ID. You can NOT vote without being registered. And you most definitely can't just 'drive people around'.
You should look at the way he treated Polish workers who (illegally) worked on constructing his Trump Tower in Manhattan. He litigated with them for _18_ _years_ before finally paying them.
So he's an asshole and he most definitely does use all possible dirty tricks when his ego is touched.
Yes, our team's manager has a nice sense of humor. Another advantage of Amazon - it's easy (and officially encouraged!) to move between teams. So the asshole team managers soon find themselves alone and unable to hire developers internally.
Interestingly enough, everybody in Amazon today received a letter from Jeff Bezos, saying that Amazonians can escalate the issue directly up to him if they encounter any situations described in the NYT.
I joined Amazon this year (through an acquisition) and I don't see anything described in the article. People don't work 80-hour weeks (buildings are almost empty after 7pm), the typical office hours are 10am-6pm and the general level of assholery is very low. Also, we have free coffee ( http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-... ) and red Swingline staplers on every desk!
As for interviews - it's quite likely that your interviewers had several interviews before and they are just as draining as for candidates. Except that interviewers will also have to write feedback and do a debriefing next day.
Well, yeah. I'm a West-coast techie, and here even billionaires wear jeans or simple suites. I've been to weddings and even there I can't remember people wearing cuff links (not that I paid particular attention to that).
Exactly which party do you think I'm standing for? I don't like a lot of stuff Democrats do and I like some of stuff many third parties are for. Hell, I even agree with Libertarians on some points.
Besides, "it's partisanship!" is about as stupid an argument as anything. EVERYTHING is patisanship, because there's likely to be a political party out there that stands for it.
I'm evaluating actual Republican performance and position. Both of them are beyond contempt. There is no single Republican in the Congress that I respect, all of them can be transformed into gutter slime and the country will be better for it.
Eliminating ACA tax on medical devices MIGHT be a good idea, if they can provide a balanced tax increase or a cut on something else. Had they done so?
Sequester was the worst possible way to get cuts. And it was also in its very nature NOT constructive - it was meant to be a cudgel to force parties to make an agreement.
Defunding Planned Parenthood is also not constructive. And is extremely prejudiced and stupid (but what can you expect from Republicans?...).
So what other constructive laws have they proposed? I'm asking for constructive proposals, that do not simply say "let's grow economy by 5000% by 2020 by eliminating ACA!" but actually provide a deficit-neutral way to do it.
I'm living in an apartment and my electricity usage is actually even lower than yours. That still won't help much - households are only about 35% of the total electricity demand. The rest is commercial and industrial customers and they are already doing pretty much all they can to cut the usage.
So you take a drone out - you go to jail. Period. The asshole shooting the drone can then present the case to the local judge and explain why they have shoot the drone in their yard.
You're spot on. I have the exactly same drone model (nothing unusual, they are really popular). This is a downlinked video, from the remote control and similar artifacts are commonplace. The camera is on a gimbaled platform and it's pretty clear that the operator is not very skilled in its use.
There might be a better video from an SD card inside the craft, though.
I have a similar drone. You can easily spend 20 seconds simply by checking the control settings (like turning on the "multiple flight mode") inside the remote control app. Especially if this was one of the first flights.
See? Now you're being blindly partisan again. Democrats say that Republicans don't care about people because Republicans don't like welfare.
Nope. I don't like Republicans because they don't care about people, as your very own link suggests. ALL they want is more misery and more tax cuts.
BTW, I'm still waiting for examples of enacted constructive policies from Republicans that actually produced the intended results. Can you name a few?
As for the act, the crucial clause is this:
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties....
Sorry, language leakage. Russian term for "solar panel" is "solar battery" if translated word-for-word. I plead a sleepless night. And where do you usually install solar panels if not on a roof?
And while you might live within 8kWh/day (that's about 30% of the average household consumption) with intermittent blackouts, many industrial processes or commercial consumers can not. And they make up about two thirds of the total electricity consumption.
Ok. Solar panels: many, many dead people (about 10x more than ever died from nuclear accidents), including children. The main source of casualties are injuries sustained during installation or maintenance of rooftop solar batteries.
Why do you hate poor innocent children?
And about "ignorant" - I'm an investor in several solar and wind energy companies (including privately held ones). A successful investor, I'd say. And I _know_ the capabilities and _limitations_ of solar and wind energy.
Right now there's still no solution that can at the same time reduce CO2 and provide reliable baseload capability except nuclear power.
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BS on multiple fronts.
1. Amazon actually doesn't have a large direct presence in the Silicon Valley. They have only recently started to actively grow there. And yes, they're hiring.
2. But more importantly, when a department is downsized or moved - its employees are NOT fired. They are given freedom to shop around for a team to join.
3. The bit about flying coach is true, though. It's a company-wide policy that everyone flies coach, even VPs. Though you can use frequent flier miles from Amazon flights for your own personal travel.
I've been working at Amazon for 6 months (after an acquisition) and I haven't yet heard of anyone asked to work on weekends.
The only major exception I've seen is on-call people - they are expected to take care of any issues that might happen at any time when they're on-call.
Do you have a single documented example of this?
Here's my take: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
And please note, I'm not anonymous and I'm ready to stand for all my words.
Uhm, can you tell me which floor has free snacks today?
Why? iWatch actually looks nice - it's sleek and streamlined. Perhaps your sense of style is utterly lacking?
Bullshit. All the states require for citizens to register for elections, and that registration requires an ID. You can NOT vote without being registered. And you most definitely can't just 'drive people around'.
You should look at the way he treated Polish workers who (illegally) worked on constructing his Trump Tower in Manhattan. He litigated with them for _18_ _years_ before finally paying them.
So he's an asshole and he most definitely does use all possible dirty tricks when his ego is touched.
Yes, our team's manager has a nice sense of humor. Another advantage of Amazon - it's easy (and officially encouraged!) to move between teams. So the asshole team managers soon find themselves alone and unable to hire developers internally.
Interestingly enough, everybody in Amazon today received a letter from Jeff Bezos, saying that Amazonians can escalate the issue directly up to him if they encounter any situations described in the NYT.
Here's another take on this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...
I joined Amazon this year (through an acquisition) and I don't see anything described in the article. People don't work 80-hour weeks (buildings are almost empty after 7pm), the typical office hours are 10am-6pm and the general level of assholery is very low. Also, we have free coffee ( http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-... ) and red Swingline staplers on every desk!
As for interviews - it's quite likely that your interviewers had several interviews before and they are just as draining as for candidates. Except that interviewers will also have to write feedback and do a debriefing next day.
Well, yeah. I'm a West-coast techie, and here even billionaires wear jeans or simple suites. I've been to weddings and even there I can't remember people wearing cuff links (not that I paid particular attention to that).
That's fine. Apple has the Watch-for-rich-snobs edition for $17000.
I don't think I've ever worn cuff links. I actually haven't even _seen_ anyone wearing them in Real Life.
The next generation of iWatch will have longer lasting batteries and more features. Why would people need traditional watches, again?
Exactly which party do you think I'm standing for? I don't like a lot of stuff Democrats do and I like some of stuff many third parties are for. Hell, I even agree with Libertarians on some points.
Besides, "it's partisanship!" is about as stupid an argument as anything. EVERYTHING is patisanship, because there's likely to be a political party out there that stands for it.
I'm evaluating actual Republican performance and position. Both of them are beyond contempt. There is no single Republican in the Congress that I respect, all of them can be transformed into gutter slime and the country will be better for it.
In my experience FitBit is quite precise (within 5% of the treadmill's values), I carry it in my pants pocket.
Eliminating ACA tax on medical devices MIGHT be a good idea, if they can provide a balanced tax increase or a cut on something else. Had they done so?
Sequester was the worst possible way to get cuts. And it was also in its very nature NOT constructive - it was meant to be a cudgel to force parties to make an agreement.
Defunding Planned Parenthood is also not constructive. And is extremely prejudiced and stupid (but what can you expect from Republicans?...).
So what other constructive laws have they proposed? I'm asking for constructive proposals, that do not simply say "let's grow economy by 5000% by 2020 by eliminating ACA!" but actually provide a deficit-neutral way to do it.
I'm living in an apartment and my electricity usage is actually even lower than yours. That still won't help much - households are only about 35% of the total electricity demand. The rest is commercial and industrial customers and they are already doing pretty much all they can to cut the usage.
So you take a drone out - you go to jail. Period. The asshole shooting the drone can then present the case to the local judge and explain why they have shoot the drone in their yard.
You're spot on. I have the exactly same drone model (nothing unusual, they are really popular). This is a downlinked video, from the remote control and similar artifacts are commonplace. The camera is on a gimbaled platform and it's pretty clear that the operator is not very skilled in its use.
There might be a better video from an SD card inside the craft, though.
I have a similar drone. You can easily spend 20 seconds simply by checking the control settings (like turning on the "multiple flight mode") inside the remote control app. Especially if this was one of the first flights.
See? Now you're being blindly partisan again. Democrats say that Republicans don't care about people because Republicans don't like welfare.
Nope. I don't like Republicans because they don't care about people, as your very own link suggests. ALL they want is more misery and more tax cuts.
BTW, I'm still waiting for examples of enacted constructive policies from Republicans that actually produced the intended results. Can you name a few?
As for the act, the crucial clause is this:
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to exempt, from the rules of prudential regulators for swap dealers and major swap participants with respect to initial and variation margin requirements for swaps not cleared by a registered derivatives clearing organization, those swaps in which one of the counterparties....
Sorry, language leakage. Russian term for "solar panel" is "solar battery" if translated word-for-word. I plead a sleepless night. And where do you usually install solar panels if not on a roof?
And while you might live within 8kWh/day (that's about 30% of the average household consumption) with intermittent blackouts, many industrial processes or commercial consumers can not. And they make up about two thirds of the total electricity consumption.
Ok. Solar panels: many, many dead people (about 10x more than ever died from nuclear accidents), including children. The main source of casualties are injuries sustained during installation or maintenance of rooftop solar batteries.
Why do you hate poor innocent children?
And about "ignorant" - I'm an investor in several solar and wind energy companies (including privately held ones). A successful investor, I'd say. And I _know_ the capabilities and _limitations_ of solar and wind energy.
Right now there's still no solution that can at the same time reduce CO2 and provide reliable baseload capability except nuclear power.
Consequences of solar power: dead rivers from solar panel factories dumping their waste.
Consequences of wind power: dead whales, birds and cities without electricity.