Amazon doesn't pretend to care about its employees, Google does (pretend, that is). Working for Amazon right out of college, I honestly kind of appreciated the fact that they never tried to make it feel like your work was your "family", which always came off as <i>incredibly</i> creepy. Interviewing for Facebook and Google and seeing their offices and culture always gave me the heebie jeebies for that reason, and I'm glad I didn't choose them. I'm also glad I left Amazon quickly.<p>In the end, it's just two different types of cults. You're a fool to show loyalty to Amazon when it shows none back, and Google is in some ways creepier for pretending to care about you and suck in all facets of yourself into a corporation.<p>The straightforward solution is to work for neither, and show that we won't tolerate creepy corporate culture taking over the technology world that we love.
Yes, the difference is visible. I use AWS day in and day out with nary a complaint, whereas the GCP and other Google stuff that I have to interact with, as someone whose enterprise relies on Google, is just a f*cking nightmare. For enterprises, AWS is the clear winner over GCP/Google OAuth/Other APIs.
I feel like there is this giant chasm between the AWS engineers and the actual <i>Amazon</i> engineers. I swear that some of the Amazon apps/services are some of the worst things I use on a regular basis.<p>It feels sometimes like amazon proper doesn't want my money, vs AWS side where its like... oh, you wanna spend like $500 spinning up services to test, sounds good, knock yourself out!
Oh, c'mon. I haven't worked at either but I have interviewed several engineers from both, and honestly nobody at Google seems to do anything. I met someone who spent three months just fixing some minor CSS issues on youtube.com
Sorry, but whatever tool Google brings up in the future, it won't attract me anymore. It will be buried anytime soon or it's a pain to work with. Engineering excellence my a*.
It's evident when every other Google project gets cancelled. Most recently Stadia I believe.<p>obvious mention: <a href="https://killedbygoogle.com/" rel="nofollow">https://killedbygoogle.com/</a>
Amazon makes Walmart look like saintly. Amazon has no free perks like food for employees. Google is surprisingly generous while Meta/Facebook comes in a close 2nd. Meta has lactation rooms, prayer/meditation rooms, and quiet rooms.