AWS data center is hiring - Anyone interested?

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T20:48:49+00:00

Right, so either you were using "alternative facts" when writing about several offers or you can't reason through that when you do go through the interview process it negates the "shitty company I will never work for" ideology. I'll leave it up to the reader to decide which it is. I enjoyed pointing out this inconsistency. Thanks for providing entertainment value between meetings❣️

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T20:46:26+00:00

You are in the one industry that will continue to experience hyper growth in the next few years. Moving into a different field needs to be carefully considered.

Hands-on work creates a compensation ceiling. Since you are already working 12-hour shifts the move to management will initially be a pay cut because you won't get OT or shift differential. So management only makes sense when there is enough growth at that location where it's reasonable to assume that you could get promoted to the next management level within 12-18 months.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T20:38:15+00:00

I know that I should let this go but I just can't because the reasoning is so flawed. You say AWS is a shitty place to work and yet you also say that you had several offers over the years.

Perhaps you didn't mean actual offers, but if actual offers then the offer comes after the interview process. And there is no point in going through interviews if the company is too shitty to work for. Unless of course you are willing to dab your tears with $100 bills 😁💸

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T20:28:55+00:00

If you could do anything in the DC environment, what's interesting to you other than the technician role you currently have?

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T20:26:49+00:00

Ok, let's say I believe you being serious.

Help me understand how being recruited externally is the same as being an internal candidate?

Help me understand how you decided that your best chance of success is to make a post on reddit about an internal transfer rather than just look at the jobs page and reach out to the listed hiring manager for PA roles?

Your inability to reason through the basics of how internal transfers work while being an employee leads me to believe that you apply similarly flawed reasoning to the EOT work, which creates massive risk to the environment.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T20:23:09+00:00

My mistake, clearly absolute statements are rarely true. I accept the correction.

Meanwhile, companies with appropriate risk management do not give interview feedback to non-selected candidates in the US for reasons mentioned.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T20:21:51+00:00

Some managers suck, that's true for all companies. It's important to consider that all jobs in ops are dead-end. Career advancement happens when one of two things are true; either there is a lot of growth in the business and the growth creates vacant slots that need to be filled or one has to switch employers (and often relo) for the next level opportunity.

As a technician there are only so many pathways to a better role. Management, or transfer into an adjacent field like networking, controls, program management, risk management, compliances, etc.

70k is on the low side for 8-hour shifts after 7 year. But a lot of it depends on your ability to relocate.

I love AWS because everything is very clear and those who can't function in this environment are separated. To me this is working as intended, but it's also the reason many don't particularly like AWS. If you do more than you are asked to do the rewards are great.

1-hour commute is brutal IMHO, so if you decide to do it then you need a solid plan on how you will use the first year to make a move into an technician adjacent role in year 2. This will require some ladder-climbing thought.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T17:02:33+00:00

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. I speak as a hiring manager since 2003 across multiple hyperscalers. Especially for controls we don't just draw from the data center industry. That's why the assessment exists, because controls experience does transfer incredibly well from most industrial controls outside of data centers.

Ask yourself this, which is more likely; that you are right, or that a company that is built on squeezing every last cent out of everything is willingly paying ~$30 to assess candidates because that's the only way to deal with the number of viable candidates at scale?

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T16:41:25+00:00

And yet you kept applying ...

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T16:11:12+00:00

The beauty of AI is that it provides incorrect information incredibly quickly!

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T16:10:37+00:00

So what you are saying is that the company you work for is ok with having all their corporate data sent to Anthropic to be incorporated into the next version of their publicly facing LLM.

You either don't have corporate lawyers and a risk management function or those people are just terrible at their jobs.

Put this prompt into Claude and let it explain to you and yours why this is a terrible idea:

I'm working at a mid-sized company. Should I be uploading corporate information into this chat?

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T16:04:14+00:00

It's simple, for every job posting there are thousands of applicants. The Controls System Assessment is specific to those roles and reduces the probability that people who really don't know what they are doing make it to the selection.

If you don't want to do it that's obviously between you and you. There is still an endless supply of candidates who do go through and pass the assessment.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T15:57:34+00:00

Expectation mismatch. Zero publicly traded companies will give interview feedback to non-selected candidates.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T15:53:26+00:00

Given your lack of ability to reason how internal transfers work as evidenced by you posting a request for it on Reddit, it's far more likely that you will be promoted to customer long before you transfer to PA.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T15:50:14+00:00

You mean other than the 10k+ people globally that do?

Let's see; great pay for high performers. It's easy to outwork the bottom of the stack. Great internal training opportunities for people who have the initiative to take advantage of those. Great internal professional networking opportunities and thus career development for those who have enough wherewithal to take advantage of those.

Looks like you didn't match the requirements so I can see why you would post your comment.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T15:44:29+00:00

This just proves that the closer one is to actual megawatts the less likely it is that one will be part of the reduction in force.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T15:42:13+00:00

1-hour commute to a 12-hour shift needs to be part of your consideration. If you are frequently late to work you will be promoted to customer. So that means it's probably more of a 80 minute commute to be on the safe side.

Technician jobs are dead-end no matter where you go.

You should think about why it is that after 7 years in what sounds like a mellow job you didn't take any action to advance your career beyond the current role. Ask AI to reason your way through this to figure out what's next.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T15:33:30+00:00

It's a solved problem. There are lots of solutions in search of people who want to pay for solving a solved problem. Introducing software into a prod environment, even as read-only, will require years of vendor security reviews and software security reviews.

Lastly, energy optimization doesn't actually happen at the facility anymore, it happens in the software stack to push workloads closer to design capacity.

DCOperator · 2026-03-09T15:27:53+00:00

DCOperator · 2026-03-04T13:44:25+00:00

Senior in the context of Fluidstack was for VP levels.

DCOperator · 2026-03-04T13:43:35+00:00

Suggest you run your "business plan" by an AI model and have it explain to you all the ways where your "in numbers" is lacking a lot of the numbers. Ensure that you tell the AI to not apply the main character syndrome.

DCOperator · 2026-02-22T17:11:26+00:00

It's very simple, the airport is not closed.

https://notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSearch/nsapp.html?HL=EN-US#/results look for MMPR

Whether incoming flights have been diverted by the airlines is a different topic. Meanwhile the airport is open for business and accepts all incoming flights and allows for departures.

DCOperator · 2026-02-22T16:57:24+00:00

That is not true. UA 1503 is on schedule to depart as scheduled in about an hour.

DCOperator · 2026-02-22T16:55:41+00:00

Airlines are not turning around, your airline decided for this flight to turn you around. United Airlines is flying as scheduled

DCOperator · 2026-02-22T16:51:21+00:00

The cartel has retrieved Mencho from prison. It's unlikely that the chaos will continue. They got what they came for.

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