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by bodge5000 1596 days ago
Never worked for AWS, but I'd imagine its different depending on division/team. Before starting a job once I had an ex-colleague warn me against the company, saying he had friends there and it was brutal (none in the team I was joining, but its a big company). Turned out to be the opposite for me, and in fact was far nicer than the company I worked for when I was working for him.

Big companies are often far less consistent across teams than you'd expect/they'd like it to be, for better or worse
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Moru 1596 days ago
It can even be different in the same team. It's about who wins the bully lottery just like in school. Some will go through school totally oblivious to the fact that some people gets so bullied that they decide to end their lives a few years down the road.

Once I came in to work in the evening, I had forgotten to bring my phone with me. There I find one of my coworkers crying his heart out because the women treat him like shit. I had not noticed a thing until then. They thought he was sent there to optimize them away and was making his life hell. He had sold his appartment and moved to our little town to work but couldn't take it and moved back again.

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deltaonefour 1596 days ago
The women treat him like shit? What was he optimizing?
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Moru 1595 days ago
Well he was the only male except for me so there was noone else to treat him badly. He was just taking over the invoicing that noone had time for anyway so I have no idea why they were treating him so bad. The ones that were doing the invoices were always complaining that they had to do that on top of their normal job. Some people just can't handle new people showing up and think it's a threat to them. Turns out they were right to feel threatened though, the company shut down the whole branch a few years later and moved everything.
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ignoramous 1595 days ago
> Turned out to be the opposite for me, and in fact was far nicer than the company I worked for when I was working for him.

The company is the same for everyone (ie un-humanistic in its management), and if and when your personal circumstances change, you'd then perhaps see what others currently in it are moaning about.

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