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Discussion on: I am AWS Obsessed but I can't get hired at AWS. Have you ever faced such repeated rejection?

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Rehan van der Merwe

Same here... Applied for a few positions, got an offer over LinkedIn from them, but not what I was looking for.

Reject me once, shame on you; reject me 500 times, shame on me. That made me realize, I don't really want to work for them. Not now anyways, don't get me wrong I absolutely love working and building with AWS.

I just realized what I want, I might not get from them either, that belonging to a company with a family like culture where growth is mutual. A place I can be heard, make an impact and be encouraged and pushed to do what I love and that place at this moment is not AWS. There is a time and place for everything, now is just not that time.

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

If I worked at AWS, they probably wouldn't let me build a Pinball machine powered by IoT devices on company time.

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Pronoy Roy

Actually, you can. Provided you can justify it or have completed your share of work.

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Brandi Jones

"Belonging to a company with a family like culture where growth is mutual ... place I can be heard, make an impact and be encouraged ... "

Now there's a truer, heartfelt bit than I've heard in quite awhile!