Current Events > Wait.... how exactly does a well educated techie end up working at Amazon?

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At an Amazon Warehouse of all places

like seriously.... WTF?

This clown is Stanford University educated and once upon a time he made big money at a tech startup yet now.... hes making barely above minimum wage as a warehouse worker?

How exactly does this happen? The dude cant get Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or any other tech company to pick him up?

I hate working with overqualified people like this because their head is so big that they think theyre better than everyone in the place

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you don't simply "get picked up" by a fortune 500 company for any position other than bottom of the barrel

Why don't you ask him? Maybe he has some kind of record that no one will hire him cause of it.

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It's not that easy

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guess you need to be a true egghead to have a great position in one of those companies...

Bachelors arent that useful for IT jobs anyways.
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Connections are more important than degrees

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Vermander posted...

Bachelors arent that useful for IT jobs anyways.

depends on the IT job

you can learn programming from a uni fairly well. database design and development as well. They can teach with web development, but the fundamentals of it rather than whatever flavor of the month framework is popular at the moment. unis often have networking degrees as well which are similar to a CCNA but more vendor agnostic

with your compsci and programming knowledge you can branch out into almost any IT niche as programming skills are almost universally helpful.

They can pay an immigrant to do it cheaper. 7 out of the top 10 companies that use H-1B visas are tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, etc. Why do you think they wanted Trump and his ban gone so badly? Haha, are people really this clueless?

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He didnt have something lined up when the tech startup went down and its harder to get a job once youve been unemployed for a while?

While he is well educated, he cant apply that education in a work environment? The question of what did you accomplish in your last job?

The work he is capable of doing is being offshored? My husband works in AI and coding is done offshore. He is much more likely to hire someone with a high level math degree to work on his stuff because anyone can do coding, not just anyone can come up with algorithms.

There are many reasons.
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My brother does data science for a big tech company. He has a PhD in genetics. And worked several data science jobs prior to this. My sense is that it is very competitive.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

depends on the IT job

you can learn programming from a uni fairly well. database design and development as well. They can teach with web development, but the fundamentals of it rather than whatever flavor of the month framework is popular at the moment. unis often have networking degrees as well which are similar to a CCNA but more vendor agnostic

with your compsci and programming knowledge you can branch out into almost any IT niche as programming skills are almost universally helpful.

Im an engineer at my company and Ive only got an associates. (I did teach myself advanced PowerShell though.)

Most of our true developers are from India.
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When I worked in a video game store, there was a full time employee who had a postgraduate degree in a STEM subject. He seems pretty happy there. I'm pretty sure he's still working there. Wtf.

Just out of interest, his postgrad degree was in geology. That IS a STEM subject?

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Pardon me, but I just had to have another chuckle at this topic. These Americans truly get what they deserve at this point. But hey, its a small price to pay for ending fascism. Oh, and Biden will most certainly increase the number of foreign work visas for these companies so tell your wagie friend to hold onto that pee bottle. HohohoHOHOHAHAHA!

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California? If so dude should move and he'll be alright.
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Amazon has tech jobs. There's nothing wrong with working at Amazon.
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i used to work as a cashier at a daiso and one of my coworkers was this dutch dude with a masters in biochemical engineering or something

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is there an article about this or is it some dude you know?

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maybe he said a racial slur on Twitter in middle school and now this is the consequence

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I worked with a guy at GameStop like 12 years ago who graduated college and had a pilots license with all the required flying blah blah blah. He would complain all the time about how he should be flying.

Currently hes a pilot for United.

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berlyman101 posted...

is there an article about this or is it some dude you know?

a dude I know

hes a big time primadonna here in the Amazon warehouse. a lot of us cant stand him.

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What's the story?

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AtelierRyza3462 posted...

What's the story?

I dont know much about him past being a Stanford graduate and a former techie at a startup

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Maybe he made a lot of money and burned out..? I know I daydream of doing something easy af after I make some fuck you money, not sure I would exactly choose to work at an Amazon warehouse but w.e

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Why don't you try getting to know him better? Maybe he can't relate to anyone and his having a tough time

Also I saw a docu on TV about this engineering grad who couldn't find a job... It was so depressing. It's not that uncommon, some people fall through cracks and there are still cracks at the university level.

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A friend of mine has a degree and had a good job using that degree. He hated it so much he tried to kill himself and now hes a mailman. Says hes never been happier.

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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

a dude I know

hes a big time primadonna here in the Amazon warehouse. a lot of us cant stand him.

he probably had a niche job or it was through a risky startup that doesn't translate well to other jobs. also if he's a prima donna other potential employers may pick up on that and not hire him.

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I am puzzled here. Stanford grad is a prima donna, right? If the rest of you are not prima donnas, this is if the rest of you are not prima donnas, then chill.

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^except nobody likes him here

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ReDaZnDraGoN97 posted...

^except nobody likes him here

If you all have each other and you all like each other, stop crying about the prima donna guy.

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I was in this position for a bit. Hindsight, I should've cared less about the school work and more towards finding my in for my post undergrad job, even if it meant pulling a scumbag "do little in a project" move like some people I knew that got their way.


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Wait what Amazon warehouse do you work at?

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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

because their head is so big that they think theyre better than everyone in the place

Maybe just maybe that's why no one liked working with them and why they didnt hire them.

Or perhaps as others said, maybe they got tired of doing the job and were looking for something "easier"?

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LookANinja posted...

Wait what Amazon warehouse do you work at?

I wont say which one for privacy reasons


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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Also I saw a docu on TV about this engineering grad who couldn't find a job... It was so depressing. It's not that uncommon, some people fall through cracks and there are still cracks at the university level.

Do you remember what documentary that was?

It would've really hepled a few years ago
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Worked in IT in the past, and I won't be doing it again because the industry sucks ass. Shit like Amazon is pretty much the options I'd have left, unless I can make my own game to sell or something (I have the coding skills, but not a lot of the other things that are needed, in particular graphics design skills).

(I should note "in the past" ended very recently - as in, last couple of weeks - so I haven't actually decided on my next move just yet.)

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Trumble posted...

Worked in IT in the past, and I won't be doing it again because the industry sucks ass. Shit like Amazon is pretty much the options I'd have left, unless I can make my own game to sell or something (I have the coding skills, but not a lot of the other things that are needed, in particular graphics design skills).

(I should note "in the past" ended very recently - as in, last couple of weeks - so I haven't actually decided on my next move just yet.)

What didn't you like about it? I'm actually trying to get into the field.

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CrimsonWaffle posted...

What didn't you like about it? I'm actually trying to get into the field.

Non compete agreements.

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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

I wont say which one for privacy reasons

I only care if its amzl

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