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Why do think so? Databricks notebook product I have used in couple of companies is pretty solid. I have done any google research but they are generally known to be very high talent dense kind of place to work.

How were you able to find time for gym consistenly with kids + work? Is this because work is relatively stable?

Right now at age 32, I haven't been able to go to gym consistently mainly because work takes so much out of my life/time.

curious why did you end up leaving? Since the company is known to be this amazing.

Absolutely. Use all the advantages you have in life.

To be clear, what I really think is you need to be a little cynical in life to "make" it.

100 % agree on this. Rich people are nicer because they don't need much from the other party.

This is good info thanks. I have some cloud Infra experience so I am interesting in knowing how does they keep the data stored and remove the "query" servers when not in use.

Possibly some kind of EBS equivalent storage which is attached to the VM when it's booted up? I wonder that creates more failures at the cost of operational simplicity?

By same order you mean as per in-order traversal correct?

+1 Read their other articles on the blog as well. Very informative.

I think still competitive without the appreciation. Amazon is the only employer which takes appreciation into account. Most others don't.

Please correct me if I am wrong here.

This is particular to amazon and is a dick move any way you put it.

Read my above comment.

To be absolutely clear, comp is not based on stock appreciation. You get your grant (aka no. of stocks/RSUs) that vest at some cadence. By the time you vest a tranche and share price has increased is an added bonus (though generally people in tech think 4x in 4 years is their birth right.)

As for Netflix, they do give you option of choosing to split your salary every year i.e all cash, all options, some cash and some options as you see fit.

They have apparently hired a ton of great k8 folks who have been tasked with building an internal layer of sorts for themselves so I guess they are moving off it (though not anytime soon).