The term “sprint” along with most of Agile nonsense is inane and misleading. I was skeptical of the entire process until recently when I’ve seen some benefits thinking about and practicing it as “method to efficiently parallelize and delegate tasks.” Good planning saves me and the team some cognitive load in determining “what’s next” constantly. And daily stand ups are still mostly useless but a good touch point when doing remote WFH.
Hiring hiring bar is generally a bad sign. Any company that thinks it needs to be more selective (in technical ability, at least) than Google is probably kidding themselves.
Interestingly, this private, closed fund constantly has its returns leaked, PR articles about it, etc. You are welcome to invest in their open, and very mediocre, funds though.
H1B is indentured servitude, that’s why corporate America loves it. This measure will do nothing but increase masters mill programs, punishing both smart immigrants and Americans. Basically, another brutal, but expected, betrayal of campaign promises by the hapless Trump administration.
Amazon is really not that good from a tech standpoint. They are good at selling and shipping at scale. Tech (including AWS) has always been a secondary or tertiary concern for them.