[umanwizard]

Amazon (like many other big companies) strongly discourages employees from commenting publicly on subjects related to the company.

It might seem draconian, but it makes a lot of sense. Talking about a smaller company in a forum like HN might be completely anodyne, but comments about Amazon could easily have repercussions like getting picked up by the press and spun into some crazy story, or alerting people to some strategic information that the commenter isn't even aware is sensitive. For example, posting "hey we're at Amazon and we're moving from system X to system Y" could generate surprised and angry phone calls with the CEO of the vendor of X (I have a real example in mind that happened because of a stackoverflow post), or could cause the stock price of the vendor of Y to jump, causing insider trading concerns... best to just avoid it.

So it's very natural that company policy would strongly discourage such public commentary, and most current employees follow that.

[just_passing_by]

>Amazon could easily have repercussions like getting picked up by the press and spun into some crazy story

Didn't NY Times expose help to shape Amazon workplace for good?