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by scarface_74 979 days ago
The best thing that ever happen for my career (and finances) was to work (remotely) at AWS ProServe for three years.

The best thing that ever happened for my mental health was to get PIPd with a nice severance and forced me to look for another job (I found one in three weeks).

I knew from reputation and second hand experience that eventually Amazon is going to Amazon before I accepted the offer.

There was no way in hell I was going to uproot my life and move to work at Amazon. I initially turned down a chance to even interview for an “eventually on prem” role as an SDE.

The only reason I interviewed was because the department I was interviewing for was remote pre-Covid

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> the department I was interviewing for was remote pre-Covid

If only that mattered. My org, 200+ employees, was very remote friendly pre-covid with lots of remote roles. Got 3 exceptions from RTO to hand out.

Congrats on getting promoted to customer, I'm glad that all worked out for you!

Yes never meet your heroes..