[jjtheblunt]

when i spent not quite a year working for (non AWS) Amazon, a document was leaked that such treatment was actually business plan. It was beyond obvious before the document was leaked.

I contrasted the structure of several years of Apple engineering with the insanity of this business plan, which put roughly a dozen layers of non technical middle managers above our team of people with pretty hardcore technical degrees and who were dependable and capable, yet who were treated like fungible assets.

I became resolute to quit as soon as possible...but it DID take months to believe my perceptions of the stupidity were valid.

Life's too short to spend working for oligarchs.

[smordistan]

Only you knew this before you accepted the job offer with the dollar signs.

[jjtheblunt]

Oh no i did not. It was extreme bait and switch.