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U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

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All 8k h1bs that Amazon brought in just last year are “A players”? How do you see two people doing the work of one “dragging down the A players”?

Amazon is not the same tier as Meta and Google. Engineer comp at Amazon is about half of what it is at Meta or Google. We reject a whole lot of applicants coming from Amazon.

C players drag down A players in lots of ways. The most obvious is making messes for the A players to clean up. Less obvious is trying to justify their existence through things like diversity initiatives and such that cause everyone to have to deal with linguistic purges and trainings and such. They also just take far longer to explain things to, and they’ll bog you down with questions they ought to be able to answer for themselves if they were smarter or more conscientious.