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AWS, like every company, is really the culture+ managers.

Some managers can deflect the culture enough for you to feel "loved".

Others can't. They embody the culture. The AWS culture really is that ruthless.

How odd. I have, and continue, to use Signal without auto-update enabled.

I have been prompted, twice in three years to update though.

Perhaps the requirement depends on your country?

> Groups do not have guilt, individuals do.

When we can treat corporations as legal individuals, then groups also have guilt.

Your comment does not highlight anything which indicates that Australians blindly follow the rules.

I'm Australian, currently live in Sydney and I feel as you do, but none of your examples explain your claim.

No, I don't have time to list the ways Australians follow rules (more so that Germans), it is 1:15am, and I'm going to bed.

A low-cost way to make plastic polymer lenses which enable infra-red photography

GitHub upgrades git, decides to "clarify" source archive policy, which breaks Homebrew, bazel, etc.

I'm Australian and have the direct counter experience. Most of the business I've worked for consider Slack as ephermal.

Email is for significant communications.

Outside of work, I'm using daily for things like booking bands, talking to strata, etc.

While email in a lot of large companies might tend to be becoming a one-way distribution system; it is still vibrant and heavily used in smaller enterprises.

The bar is per-team at Amazon, which is one of the bug hiring problems.

Worse, your title - and your quality of life at Amazon - is entirely dependent upon what your manager thinks of you.

It matters way more than at other companies.

If they were "customer obsessed" even though they are not doing development of a service, they would lauch it anyway in all regions.

By not doing this, they make it hard for their customers to be multi-regional.

It is easy to spin "customer obsession" any way you like.