Amazon: "You're a great employee--but the stock has been growing meteorically over the past year, so we're not giving you anything extra."

Also Amazon: Amazon stock has plateaued for most of the past year.
“You did a great job by every metric we have! We aren’t changing anything about your compensation for at least two years!”
I would like to take this opportunity for a depressing victory lap around everyone who talked smack about this article about @awscloud compensation.

lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-compe…
“Stonks go up” is not a compensation strategy, it’s a happy bonus.

If you work at @awscloud, humor me a second: reach out to your peers at other large tech companies and compare annual compensation. The results might knock your socks off.

Thrilled to help facilitate.
Let me make one more observation: with no refresh, unless the outcome of your work for the past year at @awscloud was “you’re fired,” your comp adjustment is the same.

Galling, isn’t it?

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15 Apr
I will now dunk on the press release for AQUA for @awscloud⁩ Redshift, a service named after the band that performed “Barbie Girl.” press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/…
When one of the three marquee customers for an @awscloud service is another Amazon business unit, it says absolutely nothing good to anyone.

In this case, “Amazon Advertising” is next to Accenture and Fox.
What is Aqua? Think @ChaosSearch, but you still have to manage the compute nodes yourself / pay slightly more for storage, and you’re close.
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A livetweet thread throughout the day, for variety.
We start with feedback for my article savaging ML, specifically AWS's marketing of same.

This gem made my morning. Next I have to check my email.
So far it's universally positive, but the AWS folks need to finish being furious and stop seeing red long enough to work their keyboards to yell at me.
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Please ask me your interview question and tell me which company / role I’m interviewing for.
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I thought the dinosaurs had to all die first before they'd decompose into petroleum?
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"Why is this the same book and not the second edition?"

Because the entire point of DynamoDB is that there's no sequel.
You can tell it's about DynamoDB because the index is at the front of the book instead of the back.
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What can I help you with this evening, Twitter?
Different strokes for different folks. I find it goofy; they clearly don't. And that's okay. It'd be a pretty boring world if we all agreed.

If Matt looks like the kind of person you'd enjoy having in your company, I'd suggest reaching out sooner than later. His greatest challenge right now is articulating exactly what he wants to do next; once he solves that he won't be available for long.

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And now: you've likely heard of @AskAManager; in this thread ask an admittedly-terrible employee what to do for an "alternate" take on workplace questions.
(DMs are open if you’d prefer not to implicate yourself.)
"Only white guys interview for an open role."

Ask the folks at your company who aren't over-represented what they think of the job description and tweak accordingly.

If everyone at the company is a white guy, you have your answer already.
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