Amazon looking for data centre engineers in South Africa

[Luis]

Amazon looking for data centre engineers in South Africa

Amazon currently has 40 permanent job openings in South Africa, predominantly in software development, operations, IT, and support engineering for its cloud business, Amazon Web Services.

The US tech giant has retrenched over 30,000 people in several rounds over the last year, including cuts in its e-commerce, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and human resources divisions.

 

[My_King]

Don't they have AI and bots that can do this for them?

Look I get it, if you need a job and looking for money, go for it. Just take note:

 

[Lupus]

Don't they have AI and bots that can do this for them?

Look I get it, if you need a job and looking for money, go for it. Just take note:

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Always reminds me of 2019, they flew my friend down to CPT for an interview, me they skyped :-(

 

[FiestaST]

Always reminds me of 2019, they flew my friend down to CPT for an interview, me they skyped :-(

Outcome for you + friend?

 

[Lupus]

Outcome for you + friend?

Nope, their offer wasn't really good, plus already rumours about how they treated staff started flying around. He just went down for the holiday probably why they skyped me.

 

[Kaapie]

Amazon engineer after 1 year employed.

 

[Lawnchairman]

They will end up appointing facility managers.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Don't they have AI and bots that can do this for them?

Look I get it, if you need a job and looking for money, go for it. Just take note:

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I think it costs less to employ South Africans than it does to pay for the electricity to power the GPUs for the AI.

 

[My_King]

I think it costs less to employ South Africans than it does to pay for the electricity to power the GPUs for the AI.

Yeah and in 3 years when you are hoping for an increase, you get hit with retrenchment.

 

[FiestaST]

Yeah and in 3 years when you are hoping for an increase, you get hit with retrenchment.

I would take a stab & 3 years sounds rather optimistic.

Maybe aim for 18 to 24 months.

 

[My_King]

I would take a stab & 3 years sounds rather optimistic.

Maybe aim for 18 to 24 months.

Yeah I was giving them the binnebout van die feit.

Hoping to never work there myself.

 

[Corelli]

Microsoft Azure is making major inroads into corporates locally though...because its cheaper, but we need some competition right.

 

[Lupus]

I would take a stab & 3 years sounds rather optimistic.

Maybe aim for 18 to 24 months.

Saw a few ex colleagues go there, 18 months is generous

 

[cguy]

Don't they have AI and bots that can do this for them?

Look I get it, if you need a job and looking for money, go for it. Just take note:

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But also take note:

 

[My_King]

But also take note:
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Given a choose between Amazon and Microsoft, I still choose the street.

 

[cguy]

Given a choose between Amazon and Microsoft, I still choose the street.

Then you likely choose relative poverty.

All the people I know at Microsoft have been there 20+ years. They are all dollar millionaires many times over. Microsoft’s median employee tenure is 5.3 years, which is very long.

It’s fun to beat up on the big boys, but they get a lot of things right, which is how they get to where they are.

 

[Neptuner]

Nope, their offer wasn't really good, plus already rumours about how they treated staff started flying around. He just went down for the holiday probably why they skyped me.

When they Skyped you did you atleast nail the first round of Bezo's behavioral questions?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Then you likely choose relative poverty.

All the people I know at Microsoft have been there 20+ years. They are all dollar millionaires many times over. Microsoft’s median employee tenure is 5.3 years, which is very long.

It’s fun to beat up on the big boys, but they get a lot of things right, which is how they get to where they are.

Yeah.. MS strikes me as a decent employer actually.

Everyone I know who is there has been there for a long time.

 

[My_King]

Kwl story bros. Always people you know, never the ones yourself.

Luckily the ones "you know" are not part of the lay offs. Right.

The big boys know how to just get lay offs right.

 

[Lupus]

When they Skyped you did you atleast nail the first round of Bezo's behavioral questions?

This is 8 years ago now, some questions were odd, I did get an offer but politely declined it