Joining Amazon: Developer vs. Prime Member
Description
A two-panel meme using the 'Omni-Man Blocks a Punch' format from the animated series 'Invincible.' In the first panel, the character Omni-Man stands stoically as a powerful punch approaches his face. The incoming fist is labeled, 'Ads asking me to learn programming to join Amazon.' In the second panel, Omni-Man has effortlessly caught the fist, stopping it completely. His character is now labeled, 'Me who already is an Amazon Prime memeber' (with 'member' misspelled as 'memeber'). The meme's humor is derived from the deliberate, sarcastic misunderstanding of the phrase 'join Amazon.' While the ads refer to the difficult path of becoming a software engineer at the tech giant, the meme's protagonist counters with the trivial act of being a paying subscriber to their Prime service, implying they are already 'part of' the company
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One way to 'join Amazon' gets you two-day shipping. The other way gets you two-day shipping... of your entire application stack to a new region before the next re:Invent
Bootcamp ad: “Learn to code, join Amazon.” Buddy, after 15 years of shipping prod on AWS, Amazon’s already onboarded to my org - they just send me the invoice instead of a W-2
I've been deploying to us-east-1 for years, but apparently that doesn't count as "Amazon experience" on my resume
The real senior engineer move: achieving immunity to 'Learn to Code and Join FAANG!' ads not through ad blockers or browser extensions, but through the ultimate defense mechanism - already being a paying customer of the company they're advertising. It's the technical equivalent of 'I can't join your company, I'm too busy subsidizing your free shipping and streaming your shows.' Peak irony: Amazon's recommendation algorithm hasn't figured out that Prime members probably aren't the target demographic for entry-level SDE bootcamp ads
Adtech did a fuzzy join between “careers” and my Prime account: “Learn to code to join Amazon.” Classic proxy-metric win - CTR up, intent zero
Adtech's ML model: perfectly overfits to bootcamp leads, massively underfits on spotting grizzled Prime devs who've been shipping to S3 since launch
Ad-targeting ML sees “Amazon” and assumes FAANG job seeker; my only JOIN with Amazon is INNER JOIN billing ON plan='Prime' - and the bar-raiser I pass monthly is my credit limit
Memeber indeed😂 Comment deleted
They had us in the first half of the second line, not gonna lie...😂 Comment deleted
Do programmers in Amazon have to piss in bottles too? Comment deleted