Is there some agreement with Instagram and TikTok to be included here? Or are they just crawling and displaying?
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amursft commented on Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer logicmag.io/commons/insid... · Posted by u/who-knows
I've worked with engineers at Amazon up to the senior principal level. Even if you grant that people in cybersecurity see a broader swath of the company, there's just no way that he can talk authoritatively about everything from AWS sales tactics, to hiring practices for former DoD procurement people, to real estate strategy to Amazon's own supply chain, to Jeff B.'s personal life. It would be like a mid-level employee at State Department talking about how the Trump administration views farm policy, and what the National Park Service is planning, and what types of cool things the US Mint is cooking up. That State Department guy might have heard about a lot of those things either from reading the news or from talking to buddies, but he wouldn't come within a mile of it as part of his job.
They're clearly putting on an air of authoritativeness, but yeah exactly. I read this more like a very extended Glassdoor review. You're getting one person's perspective. Interesting interview, big grain of salt.
amursft commented on Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer logicmag.io/commons/insid... · Posted by u/who-knows
I find it very hard to belive a cyber security engineer knows that much of the wider company and it's history.
This seemed like a fairly normal level of knowledge to me, honestly. There's a lot of public information about the company, and you work there so you want to learn and know more - from both internal/external sources. Anything you found particularly surprising?
This has already happened AFAIK.
I recall seeing that they were experimenting with it. Yep, here's a story from August.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-12/china-s-p...
Good predictions.
Didn't mention distributed/remote work. Not sure if that's because it's so obvious a trend as to be boring?
I think he's early on the plant-based diet prediction, but correct in 20-30 years. Actually a lot of these seem like trends that might take more than 10 years, but have a high chance of being correct eventually.
amursft commented on Ask HN: Do you see your team or company becoming remote-first in the new decade? · Posted by u/yang10pan
Do you think the journey for most employers will be to become remote-friendly first before becoming remote-first, rather than jumping straight to remote-first?
That's a very interesting insight and probably brings a lens of reality to actual extent of the movement towards remote. To the end that remote-friendly is the first step towards remote-first (and that the big tech companies already have some employees that are distributed), it'll be interesting to see whether there will be a step-change in the volume/percentage of remote-first roles once any of the big tech companies make the leap...
I think it probably happens gradually a lot. And I think many companies will go by team or by function like e.g. support, dev
Companies that want to hire remote or offer it should publish numbers on percent working remotely. Good marketing and helpful for the industry if you think remote work is net good.
amursft commented on Ask HN: Do you see your team or company becoming remote-first in the new decade? · Posted by u/yang10pan
I see my employer becoming remote-friendly, and remote-first on a team level.
On teams vs companies...
I've been putting together a list of the biggest distributed companies https://www.amursoftware.com/biggest-distributed-companies. What I realized is that big tech companies where some employees are distributed like e.g. Microsoft, Dell probably have a lot more distributed employees in total number than any company on my list. Like by a factor of 10x.
amursft commented on Slack have blocked using the website on mobile twitter.com/twitonatrain/... · Posted by u/Marazan
Slack continue to make product changes that speak loudly. Listen to what they are saying.
When your blog is getting beat by a typo website to the tune of thousands of visitors a day...
I love old-style internet websites like this. It makes me happy they haven't sold it and share some of the numbers.
amursft commented on Apprenticeships Beat Classrooms scotthyoung.com/blog/2019... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
I'm a physics and computer science high school teacher, I think lecture takes up about 5-10% of my classes. This is not unusual in high school. (I'm in Los Angeles)
On the other hand, when I was a student in college it was about 95% lectures.
That's awesome to hear! I'm recalling history, math, science lectures, english classes. Just thinking back to both high school and college there was a lot of lecturing.