I shared my experience. And in my experience anyone who gets the opportunity to work there should do it.
Is it fortunate? Working at a place that holds a high bar on hiring, pays extremely well, and provides extremes of learning and growth in tech? Yeah, that’s a pretty good spot to most rational people. Building systems for 20M request/second teaches you cool stuff. So yes, it’s fortunate.
Of course it’s not for everybody. I never said it was.
Nobody is going to take seriously a person that thinks working at Amazon is a pyramid scheme.
After you work at Amazon please report back your experience.
I don't think you understand the fundamental difference in motivation between you and most of us here. Most people here would rather be the CEO of a garage with a couple computers than an SVP at Amazon. Nobody needs Amazon to have a door desk.
Do you know why? It's because most programmers don't like being told what to do, let alone by people who are not programmers. Most people around here DESPISE corporate HR, and Amazon has it in spades.
As for the pyramid scheme comment, my reasoning is not only sound; it's Puget sound...
Amazon entices new grad hires with RSUs on a backloaded vesting schedule and then fires them very shortly before the vesting cliff. If "they should have read the fine print" is Amazon values, I think you need a new set of values.
Is it fortunate? Working at a place that holds a high bar on hiring, pays extremely well, and provides extremes of learning and growth in tech? Yeah, that’s a pretty good spot to most rational people. Building systems for 20M request/second teaches you cool stuff. So yes, it’s fortunate.
Of course it’s not for everybody. I never said it was.
Nobody is going to take seriously a person that thinks working at Amazon is a pyramid scheme.
After you work at Amazon please report back your experience.