Good to have on your resume for next future jobs
No work life balance, 60+ hours is the expectation for everyone
What do I do at Amazon if a peer has undermined me and convinced leadership (they blindly accepted the information my peer provided without engaging me) that he should take over my team? This resource openly admitted to doing this.
Amazon email scandal set the moral bottomline in workplace to a new low. The Indian IT guy who sent out the harassment email was already fired by the company. But how do we effectively prevent this kind of dirty politics in workplace in the future? How about the "not so obvious" types of wrongdoi...Read more
Two Executives Leave Amazon's Audible After Harassment Probe https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/two-executives-depart-amazon-s-audible-after-harassment-probe?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=bd&utm_campaign=headline&cmpId=yhoo.headline&yptr=yahoo
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/business/media/amazon-roy-price-isa-dick-hackett.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=https://m.facebook.com/
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-suspends-studio-head-over-sexual-harassment-allegations-2017-10-12
Here is what we are going through: My wife has been facing intimidation and harassment after filing a harassment complaint against her coworker. This guy, in his 60s made unwarranted advances towards her. My wife is white, early 30s and the guy is non white. My wife’s boss is black and she is simpl...Read more
A lot of my friends who worked in amazon for more than 4 years are handed focus or pip. If enforcing URA is taken strictly why not just lay them off. They anyways get the same severance if they decide to not do pip tasks. Amazon can at least save them from the mental harassment. L5 TPM 195K
Recent reports indicate a culture of sexism in the Amazon Prime team. https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22523481/amazon-prime-gender-inequality-harassment https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-investigating-prime-team-gender-bias-allegations-2021-6 Curious what people who work there think? ...Read more
Amazon and Microsoft Prostitution Article from a few years ago Did anyone from @Microsoft or @Amazon know Sumit Virmani or Vivek Asthana (FireTV?)? I know there are a lot of tech employees paying for sugarbabies, "sevices", and such. Google also fired 48 people in 2018 for sxual harassment, those...Read more
When I see it I feel bad. Amazon talks about ownership a lot in a stressful way. but i'm not an owner. I'm subject to pip/focus harassment, Job insecurity and criticism from managers.
What a bold gesture, we all know that tech industry is plagued by such assholes who keeps getting promoted even after this. Hopefully more women will get strength and can come out with their stories of harassment in tech. https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/1309853794293952512?s=09 #amazon...Read more
EDIT : Faced some harassment from the manager . Denied Leave, was asked what treatment I got when called in sick, forced to divulge anonymous daily Connection scores etc Didn’t want unnecessary trouble , so didn’t escalate. Moreover these were word of mouth, not on text. EDIT : Signed in to find...Read more
What's the legal fee like (retainer + per session cost) for fighting a case against say Amazon for: Discrimination Harassment Wrongful Termination Fmla protection A friend wants to know. He just wants to file a case just to express his ego and will. He says it will give him confidence emotionall...Read more
I provide mentoring to several ppl who graduated from the same college as myself. This allows me to learn into how various companies, including Amazon and Meta, treat their employees. While certain lesser-known startups may subject their employees to unfavorable conditions, I'm specifically referri...Read more
I joined MS leaving Amazon, and took lesser salary then Amazon (had to leave Amazon due to mental harassment) It's my First review process at MS, in 1.3 years, What is Microsoft India's average Increment and Bonus? I have done projects,solved many client bugs, but in Connect, manager has written bo...Read more
What's the legal fee like (retainer + per session cost) for fighting a case against say Amazon for: Discrimination Harassment Wrongful Termination Fmla protection A friend wants to know. He just wants to file a case just to express his ego and will. He says it will give him confidence emotionall...Read more
I was put into focus by my manager, I worked with the same team and the same manager for 5yrs. I immediately started looking for a new job and switched for a 50% hike in TC. But still there isn't a single day that I don't think about it since I had given so much to the company, to my work and went ...Read more
*Blind is way more fun to read. *No bias since I don't know anyones name, gender, race etc *Tc sharing open platform# *Amzn bashing and has helped so many people by revealing some secrets. I'm sure LinkedIn cringe has helped no one. * Hiring managers already recahout here. * So many people have post...Read more
I work in Germany. Germany is really employee friendly and there are strict laws about companies letting go of their employees. While I have known atleast two people who were let go after the initial 6 months called probation, it seems like its pretty much impossible to be fired after the probationa...Read more
9 YOE in automotive sales management. Ecom and b2b. TC 180k. Not sure if I want to move ahead with Amazon Biz Dev offer after reading so much on blind. I have really killed myself in automotive tech sales and gave it my all. Today at work our entire HR team resigned after news of a harassment lawsui...Read more