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Why would Amazon bring on a full-time consultant instead of just hiring you?

I worked internally at AWS Professional Services - their internal consulting department - every AWS ProServe employee is a “blue badge” employee with the same initial four year offer structure of base + prorated signing bonus + RSUs (5/15/40/40). Google also has a large internal consulting department for GCP.

I can’t fault you for not knowing AWS ProServe exists. I didn’t know either until a recruiter reached out to me.


My partner is also a consultant and one client was Google. I’m also confused about the exact reason why they didn’t just hire someone.

"You see we leased this back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account."

~ Monty Python, Meaning of Line (1983), on The Machine that Goes Ping.


No that’s not what I meant at all. Amazon Professional Services are made up of full time “blue badge” employees who get the same type of base + bonus + RSUs that all other blue badge employees get.

Do they not have binoculars? A zoom lens, perhaps?

They have a laser, and the desire to play with it.

Most parents are completely powerless when faced with pressure from their kids. Or even worse, their kids’ friends.

If I was serving a 20-year sentence, I would also offer to lie under oath in exchange for a pardon. She has nothing to lose.

It’s always a distraction. Look behind the curtain.

Can you please clarify this statement? It could mean a lot of things.

If people are talking about Obama, they're not talking about a certain financier.

Trump posts video of Obama as an ape

Internet: "It is 4D chess!"

You can't make this up.


The idea is to keep raising the bar of absurdity higher and higher to prove that there are no consequences, making the next worse offense easier. All with the seal of approval from the entire power class.

Maybe not 4d chess, but it's working pretty well.


I think you are thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window which might be true

It's definitely what they do, look to Trump influencers like Bannon and Miller

I’ve also gone through the US immigration system - got a green card, then naturalized. I did everything myself. And then I did everything for a friend who asked for my help.

It’s not hard. It’s just time consuming and the wait times are very long. But it’s really not difficult to fill out the forms and I never used a lawyer.


Would it have remained as easy if you were scooped up off the street one day by masked men, and deported to a country you've never been to?

Your greencard or documentation may be of no consequence to these masked men, it's up to their mercy or their face scanning app to determine the status you actually have. They may accept your documents at face value OR just deport you no questions asked.


What about the N-600 form which the article highlights as an impossible barrier for many immigrants to attain their certificate of citizenship. That isn't hard?

Still overvalued by about $70k.

Sam Neill looks like a wax figure. Jeff Goldblum doesn’t look much better.

How is this different than a firm investing only in black female founders?


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