Ok I'll bite. Why is Waze stupid?

It sounds like we've had very different experiences here. I've been part of the opposite on several separate occasions with multi-year lock up agreements in place to keep key folks around after an acquisition is complete. From memory, I feel like most of those folks continued to stay on even after their agreements expire, but certainly not all do.

Agreed, they want the talent for sure. Also, Bezos isn't the CEO.

I totally agree, however they did add the ability to disable this some time ago:

https://www.businessinsider.co...

My experience with them was the opposite. Like many PE's, they have more than one playbook, and it sounds like you just happen to be on the receiving end of one of the less desirable ones.

https://blog.golang.org/gopher

You somehow missed Texas..

They're both publicly traded companies..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Is it still 2010 where you work?

Exactly. Perhaps the article was accidentally posted here rather than The Onion?

You had me until:

That's just disgusting.

You've obviously worked in some toxic environments my friend. Your words read like a woman scourned.

If your org can afford redundant subject matter experts in all the technologies they require, then great. Many can't, or they don't want to and would rather invest in whatever their core business happens to be. There are certainly good points you brought up regarding disadvantages to having someone else manage a piece of software for you, but in the end it's a question of risk and cost...and there's no single answer that works for all organizations.

Exactly. The amount of cloud haters on slashdot never ceases to amaze me. There are several workloads that aren't suitable for cloud, no doubt...but to make a blanket statement that cloud is a bad idea shows a complete lack of maturity in the field.