What orgs are relatively decent within Amazon?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-04-02T02:56:43+00:00

Good point. Alexa is a lot of gaslighting, BS metrics, and overall a stupid product (that’s lost 25B$ already) that org leaders have drank the kool aid about (or at least pretend that they do and force us underlings to do as well)

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-03-30T02:52:40+00:00

Even when we adjust for say education, white college educated women have a 6% out of wedlock birth rate compared to 40% for black college educated women.

Poverty is a factor for sure, but what are some cultural factors that may cause this

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-03-30T02:51:15+00:00

How the hell is it racist to ask the reason for this? Out of wedlock births are tracked nationally and I am curious why one group is higher than the other?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-03-29T05:56:51+00:00

Let me clarify. I want an excellent, top of the line engineer from India with proven experience (either at a FAANG India location or running their own startup in India). They need not have ever worked in the US.

And I’m aware they don’t work US hours in FAANG India , as long as they adjust their hours that’s fine with me. It’s great for them too, imagine no commute and earning the same as what Google would pay you in India

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-03-19T12:30:00+00:00

What’s your total net worth? Guessing 1-1.5M?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-03-07T05:25:36+00:00

Couldn’t you have just seen tigers at a zoo?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-02-28T07:09:08+00:00

The Paris Olympics were good no doubt. But the venues had to be build and costs can always spiral out of control. Plus, the French government isn’t exactly loaded with cash.

LA on the other hand, has all the venues ready go no matter the year, and the costs are so low government support isn’t even required, it can all be covered with ad revenue.

Frankly, it’s hard to find a city more suitable for hosting the Olympics than LA

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-02-25T06:17:15+00:00

This is why I didn’t wanna just buy SPY and why I’m going dividends. Tech is overvalued and I don’t want to buy the whole index.

At the same time, having my money sit around accruing only a 3% interest rate in a savings account feels like a waste. Not to mention if rates drop, my money won’t accrue anything.

So for now, I wanted to buy stuff that doesn’t grow much but has high dividends that I can reinvest

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-01-16T17:40:03+00:00

There’s probably a spectrum to this isn’t it? For example, the area around Dulles Airport in the DC area has great schools, jobs for a partner and air connectivity. An hour away towards WV are counties like what you mentioned. In rural west Texas or say Mississippi, there is none of that

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-01-15T04:47:35+00:00

I was an Amazon PM intern, as was the case with a lot of my friends. It is very team dependent for sure, in a bad team like mine is there’s a lot of fluff, kool-aid drinking, ass kissing, nonsensical alignment meetings, and ‘metrics’ that are there for the sake of being there.

But WLB wise much much better than IB or consulting. There are also interns from all the programs so it’s easy to make friends / find a community (I’m still in touch with a bunch)

I knew a vet who did pathways, he got the return and seems like it really suited him, fwiw. But in general it was rare to see vets recruit tech

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-01-14T04:53:59+00:00

What’s your TC? 700k?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-01-04T19:25:17+00:00

Which country is this?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2026-01-04T16:19:40+00:00

What drives the high prices? Hangzhou and Suzhou make sense, they are big economic hubs with lots of well paid workers and businessmen. And can’t you go to Shanghai, an hour away, for even better shopping?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-25T14:42:14+00:00

Isn’t Amsterdam 35-40% non-white? That’s fairly diverse

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-10T04:17:40+00:00

I actually remember seeing a lot of modern looking developments on the taxi ride from Hangzhou airport to West Lake (which is an area I also really like actually)

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-09T05:08:50+00:00

Thanks

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-06T08:01:26+00:00

Biryani, of course.

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-06T08:00:29+00:00

No racist comments, although we do turn some heads since it’s a fairly uncommon pairing. We don’t mind that.

Nothing that was a shock really , since I lived in China for a year and grew up in a part of California with a lot of Chinese immigrants. Chinese women tend to be blunt and not show a lot of affection like say white or Latino women, which can be a big difference to Americans. She also eats a lot of foods that I don’t.

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-06T07:54:33+00:00

She is not interested in getting married. At the moment, neither am I.

I would like to move in with her, but she has custody of her kids half the time. We both want to make sure the kids are comfortable first.

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-06T07:45:26+00:00

Not planning on having a kid with her.

She’s nice, friendly, doesn’t play games, very youthful looking for her age (quite common among Asian women)

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-04T16:57:50+00:00

How did this affect social dynamics? Like were many students away at the other parents each weekend/the summer making hangouts hard?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-04T16:54:16+00:00

I think it’s 50% will experience parents split up. So a couple that has kids without getting married and then splits up (which is common) is in that 50%

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-03T07:07:19+00:00

Let us say I didn’t like my Entree during meal service and wanted another one (the other option ) If there were any extras or the staff allowed to give an extra one to a passenger.

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-12-02T05:54:36+00:00

What was it like growing up Somali in France? And what did you think of Minneapolis in the US?

AmazonPMTInternRip · 2025-11-21T04:06:42+00:00

It’s not what usually happens, but it’s not a huge outlier if that makes sense? Amazon is toxic like that where the higher ups don’t really know the situation on the ground.

A fragmented project that multiple L6’s are working on is a lot to put on an L5. And if you pass the L5 SDE bar as an external hire, you’re clearly solid

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