My grandfather, on the other hand, was a gold miner in Alaska, then returned to Seattle in the 1920s just in time for the Great Depression. So I’m just a bit older than you ;)
This. I mentored five interns across two companies (an faang and a pre IPO) all of them are on the great path and in great companies now. They didn’t know much but they had an appetite that you don’t see often in the people with 10+ years of experience.
We crossed Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary and were checked when entering Austria and Germany. However this was just but a small inconvenience- we waited over three hours to enter Hungary from non-Schengen country on almost 40 degrees Celsius in a car. Compared to that, Schengen (still) is a godsend.
>We crossed Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary and were checked when entering Austria and Germany. However this was just but a small inconvenience
Was that an actual check that could catch something, or was that just a useless inconvenient?
Because whenever I enter Austria, the "border check" is just a young grunt soldier from his mandatory military service slowing down cars to 30kph and waiving them through. One time that young soldier fell asleep in his booth with his hand out. Probably too much partying the night before so I can imagine his CO wasn't thrilled when he saw that.
So to me, the Schengen border checks are 99% inconvenience and security theater, and 1% actual security.
I had it in two last jobs in Germany (and had to wait them and also when we hire and do roadmaps we know that the person will not start before the next or the quarter after the next) as all of my coworkers, except few. These were executive and had 6 months notice periods.
Not that I complain, six months of rest and vest life wasn’t bad :-)
Query engines are (not)surprisingly complex software products. Add to that the constant (and aggressive, due to the competition in the field) evolution and adition of the new features that can interact with every existing feature in any existing context and you have a perfect environment for bugs to appear.
So the amount of the people that report internally that they were given 30 days to relocate or to "voluntary resign" makes this very plausible.
Now, I have been called from several competitors to leave AWS for the couple of years, but I was happy with the company, projects, prospects, etc. The clusterf*ck of decisions the company made in the past several months made me finally reach out to them when the RTO was announced, and I finally quit. I am going to work from the office (hybrid) on the next job, but at least I'm not going to work for Amazon. And that sparks joy.
First time someone used “grandparent” and I could relate :-)