Amazon is More Interesting than Google
<p><pre><code>  They decide that you are an elite engineer primarily
  based on whether you went to an elite school. Elite code.
  Elite engineers. Elite schools. Elite company. How very
  elitist.
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This whole "Google is elitist" meme is silly. They hired me as an SRE, and yet I didn't attend high school, went to a state college, and had something like a 3.2 GPA.<p>Stop being so afraid of failure that you never try to succeed.