I agree, but having to spend the time on the phone with them or writing up a crafty email where I actually don't use 'hello $NAME' just to find out the salary range would be nice.
The Taxi drivers in Seattle protested by blocking downtown traffic in their cabs on multiple occasions when the Uber/Lyft vote was going on. Uber and Lyft are now capped at 150 cars each.
Ah sorry! I didn't think you meant literally "10 seconds", was assuming you just meant quickly (a few minutes).
I can't really think of a use case though where someone would need more capacity in sub 10 seconds. Maybe if you only intend to scale horizontally with a bunch of 500Mb instances and had little to no room to set an appropriate scaling threshold? What would be a couple examples? With the apps I've seen the past several years generally they have scaling thresholds at 'X' resource and 3 minutes is more than enough to provision extra capacity for their needs.
Employee Handbook. A lot of the big tech companies have something similar but it's pretty bad at Amazon. You cannot write any code in your personal time and submit it without being approved. I mean anywhere, homework questions or telling a person how to write a bash script that copies a file each day.
This isn't exactly news and belongs on reddit under one of their conspiracy forums.. Amazon has quite a few number of people working to stop this type of stuff. If you want to help I'd shoot them this link.
Some people may be 'product testers', take a look at the person "Mystic Reviewers". She is a real person, her pics in her reviews match her facebook page. She works at a reputation management company in San Fran and only has done 5 star reviews.