On Internal Engineering Practices at Amazon

Yes, there is a general lack of empathy in the culture that has been written fairly extensively about, so let’s talk about what most people expect to be good inside Amazon – the tech part – their internal tools. And since as an Amazon SDE, you are mostly working with internal tools, it can be easy to lose track in the developments of outside tech ecosystem, unless you spend 4 hours a day on Hacker News. The amount of productive man hours lost struggling with Amazon’s internal systems used to be insane, yet everybody used to take it as a way of life.

Source: jatins.gitlab.io