[setheron]

I worked at Amazon for four years and absolutely loved it. I never understood the work/life balance problem people had. Usually those that struggled were just weak engineers to begin with and felt like they had to put in 10-12 hours a day just to avoid being put on a performance improvement plan / laid off (i.e. wrong fit to begin with)

[potatolicious]

I'm sympathetic to the idea that people have different experiences with companies - especially large ones with a lot of variance between orgs and teams, but this:

> "Usually those that struggled were just weak engineers to begin with"

just seems like an awful thing to say that is almost certainly untrue.

Full disclosure: I spent 2 years at Amazon and knew many extremely strong engineers who struggled, as well as some who had great experiences.