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0 pointsPyxl10110y ago0 comments

You wrote the following in a previous comment:

> I am a former Amazon employee. I worked there for exactly a year. I assume I was doing well, I was offered increase bonus and base after my initial year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10413966

Just to clarify, did you work at Amazon for 1 year or 3.5 years? It seems like these messages are contradictory, but perhaps I've misunderstood. In the message I'm replying to now, you wrote:

> I worked in retail (1 year), new businesses (1 year) and AWS (1.5 years)

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FmrAMZN_TA10y ago

I admit, I lied in the previous comment.

In the previous comment, I was worried that people would know who I was if I had said where I worked (what groups and how long). The truth is I had worked in the group I moved to for exactly a year, but I had been at Amazon for 3.5 years.

The level of retribution at that company is substantial, and I was quiet worried they would hurt my ability to get a new job.

I have a nice new job now (I was still searching when I posted that), and am less worried. It's really not hard to figure out who people are on HN.

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