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Amazon Harassment
- Ex Amazon stop harassing your colleagues with your bullshits I am not a negative person. Last 4-5 years I have seen people joining us from amazon and they act like mentally retarded, aggressive people. They don’t like amazon culture but they want amazon culture everywhere. They are sadist. It’s like someone got divorce and and still talk about ex wife with ne
- Being undermined at Amazon, a form of harassment? 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.
- link Is it true of work place harassments at AMZN 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
- link Amazon Studios Chief Suspended After Sexual Harassment Claim 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/
- AWS Investigation on systemic culture of Discrimination and Harassment Aws ProServe Investigation on Discrimination and Harassment at AWS- have you seen the recent communication from M. Garman? This investigation comes as a results of an internal petition opened by few AWS employees and supported by 600+ other Amazonians in a matter of few weeks. If you search online,
- link Amazon PIP -> Professional Cricketer This dude used to get harassed by his manager at Amazon. Now he gets harassed by opposition batsmen https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8890/report/1200800/karnataka-vs-chhattisgarh-1st-semi-final-vijay-hazare-trophy
- link Bezos acts fast, suspends studio head http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-suspends-studio-head-over-sexual-harassment-allegations-2017-10-12
- Worst org in Amazon? Which is the worst org/team to work for in Amazon which has all colors of toxicity like politics, favoritism, blackmailing, harassing, racism, bias, worst WLB and team culture? L6, 345K, 4.5 YOE
- Whats up with Amazon hiring spree? At this point I feel I am being harassed by Amazon recruiters and managers. I got 19 in mails from Amazon in last 3-4 weeks, almost temped to now interview for atleast one of them😂😂😂😂 Before the call they are scheduling interviews🙇 Tc- 🥜
- Exposing the misogyny in tech 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
- Project Kuiper Amazon Blind tax YOE: 5 Tc:~150k I’m a flight software engineer (mainly work on low resource embedded systems ) LM Space and I am borderline harassed by Amazon recruiters for project kuiper on LinkedIn. I was wondering if anyone here works on that effort and if they have thoughts. Also general thoughts
- AWS Proserve Culture Hi Folks, An Amazon recruiter has been literally bombarding and “harassing” me into interviewing for a cloud architect L6 role with AWS Proserve . But I’m seriously concerned about the general bad rap on Amazon’s toxic culture based on what I read here on Blind daily. Does anyone know if it’s diffe
- Amazon and Microsoft director prostitution bust 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
- Amazon pip question. My friend has been harassed and put into psychiatric hospital by her manager. She was in pip and finally she left amazon. She is very good but due to two senior SDEs who are closer to managers are the reason. She was so into amazon and tried her best to keep the doors open fir comeback. Now the sa
- Microsoft (IN) increment n Bonus. 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
- Is Amazon worth the hype? I keep getting harassed by Amazon recruiters every week, spamming my inbox and linkedin begging me to apply. I was just wondering how many employees are actually working on high-end technologies at Amazon? I know a lot of folks who work their but they all work in teams like A9, goodreads, etc. Mostl
- Stack ranking is not the devil I have been talking to lot of new Engineers across different companies and people are confused with the two terms "Stack Ranking" and "Force Attrition Goal (URA at Amazon)". Stack ranking is done almost everywhere for budget allocation. Because the money is limited, they distribute it using a Norma
- Why is Amazon hiring so many micro managers from outside!!! Have been an amazonian for >8 years now, have seen good, bad and worse managers. But right now I am seeing a complete different picture. My org is a racist org and I have seen it in the last 1.5 years already. There was this huge attrition where half of the team left last Dec and there is a knowl
- Work 35hrs/ week at amazon after getting hired. How long to pip? Just curious what would happen, I have a few specific questions but feel free to add more details. what are the chances of getting piped? (Landing on a team that doesn’t care basically) How long after you’re hired would it take to get piped? Will there be peers harassing/pinging after 4-5pm askin
- Is it possible to get pipped in EU? 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
- Official #Amazon #Rehire Policy? Hi, looking for some clarification on Amazon’s official rehire policy. Here’s my situation — I was in the Amazon Alexa org for exactly 1 year in 2016 as an L7. The day I joined there was a massive reorg and I lost my management chain. In that 1 year, i had 3 managers and the political climate in the
- Amazon, le, pivot I spent about 2 years now at amazon . Shortly after joining , within 2 months my then manager harassed me almost everyday to either change team or quit. This lead to depression and I started seeing a psychologist. Fortunately, I was able to change the team soon and this team was good for until an ye
- DEI is BS in Tech (and corp America as a whole) Don’t get me wrong, I think DEI training and public displays of support for underrepresented groups is great and all, but it feels like a slap in the face when leadership doesn’t actually do anything to address the issues at hand… I find it really weird that I’m literally like one of three black/mix
- Regret joining Chewy...red flags, stay away Here are my top regrets and observations after joining Chewy... What are yours? 1. Didn't do enough research and fell for competitive compensation. It's a bait 2. It's run by a bunch of incompetent Senior executives who have a track record of failure. Do your own DD. I regret missing out on this
- Noticeable degradation in FAANG recruiters? Last couple of months I've been getting absolutely bombarded by recruiters from Amazon, Google , and Facebook. I didn't mind at first because it's always nice to compile a list of recruiters you can directly hit when needed. But lately the interactions have been low quality, as bad as the days when
- Amazon I had a bad manager at Amazon. He was highly unethical and was gaslighting me. He was also sexually harassing me. He put me on a PIP to further gaslight me saying “Nobody likes you and you need to go and ask them why and what you have done wrong.” When I did, they said I was crazy, that they did lik
- I am feeling lost in life. I have badly fucked up in life. My parents were going through a divorce when I was in high school and I was a total brat. I stopped attending school and harassed my mom into buying thousands of dollars worth of computer hardware and stuff. I was playing computer games 24x7. I ended up getting a 225,000 rank out of 1 million candid
- My Amazon Experience I wanted to share my experience, it has ben some time I left Amazon but never shared this on public Blind channel. Many of the things I will say may identify me, but I give a damn. I joined Amazon as L5 Research Scientist, Bay Area in the Alexa team working on screen devices. I wanted to work on c
- Lead engineer is ignoring emails and refusing to communicate because of personal quarrel. Asking for my gf. Shes a PM who had a friendship with her projects lead engineer, and would hang out outside of work together. They got in an argument about sonething outside of work, and totally unrated. Well i guess he didnt care for how she handled the argument cuz now he completely ignores her a
- Student's Google Cloud Credentials Stolen - $14k Bill Hi, Recent college grad who used Google cloud (maps API) in a school project. Someone has stolen the credentials (not sure how, I suspect one of my less bright group members put the whole project on his GitHub, but no one would admit it). In Jan 2019 over the course of <2 days, someone hit the
- link Diary of a Bay Area tech worker, Part 2 Wednesday, 9:30am Head off for work. As you get into your car, you realize the window that was replaced yesterday is way cleaner than the others. You contemplate getting a car wash, but we’re in a drought so you feel too guilty to go through with it. Wednesday, 10:12am Traffic was light. Right as y
- Travel from India Any folks traveled back from India to the US recently? I am on OPT and have to travel to India urgently. Wanted to get an assessment of the situation. Thanks
- Good bootcamps for SE Job Offer I have a CS background coming out of college, but I don’t feel great about my programming abilities. Anyone have any recommendation for a bootcamp that leads to a great job offer? #engineering #software #bootcamp
- Thoughts on Jumpstart’s feature to filter candidates based on race/gender? I wonder if there even is an option to see only male, or Asian/White. Seems like Jumpstart is promoting racism and sexism in hiring.
- vote Has innovation slowed down? Title.
- Travel to India after graduation I will be graduating in Dec and will be joining Amazon in Feb on OPT. Is it risky to travel to India in December?
- Claim stimulus check on 2020 tax return? In 2019, I worked part time at my university and filed taxes for 9k earnings. I’ve been waiting and waiting, and haven’t received my stimulus check... Can I claim the $1200 on my 2020 tax return, even if my 2020 income is above the requirements? TC 200k YOE < 1
- best ways to buy bitcoin What is the best way to buy bitcoin? I've heard Robinhood is horrible :(
- Child care isn’t a transmission vector Largest peer-reviewed study, 57,335 child care centers: “No evidence of child care being a significant contributor to COVID19 transmission to adults—finding consistent with previous studies showing lack of assoc btwn school closures & transmission rates” https://twitter.com/nahasnewman/status/1323
- Referrals Hey everyone, looking for referrals I have a Masters degree in CS YOE - 3+ TC - 110k #Uber #Lyft #Dropbox #Microsoft #Netflix #Slack
- Any H4 applicants still waiting for Biometric appointment. Mine was filed in may 2020 and still waiting.
- Facebook WFH Options Hello Facebookers. Are you all allowed to WFH as per news or only some teams allow that? TC: 250k
- vote What kind of worker are you? Let’s face it. Some people in G and F don’t spend that much , especially 5 and 6. If You gave them 10M or 10B, they would live the same life. They just want more money even though they don’t need to spend that much. Some people work for a purpose like Dr. Fauci. He was downplayed but still want to
- link When Trump thought pandemic was going to end by easter.. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52029546
- At what age did you buy life insurance Folks will be 34 soon thinking of getting a life insurance. Have a wife and 2 kids 😀 What age did you folks take one and which one would you folks recommend ? TC : 328k
- vote Stay or switch companies? I'm a designer, planning to switch to a smaller company. Even if I get promoted, I don't see myself growing much, and the work is getting boring. However, this company is less well known, but the culture seems awesome. Base: 101k Bonus: 2k Current TC: 103k New company. Base: 108k Bonus: 7k RSU- 5
- Referral Needed Looking for a referral. I need a fully remote position for personal reasons. I do not mind sharing why in my DM. YOE: 16- leadership roles. Do not mind being a individual contributor. Do not need to be a manager but I am great with people. Current Title: Capacity Planning Manager Education: Master
- Anyone hiring SDE with 1 year experience Anyone hiring SDEs with 1 year experience. Currently at Amazon and don't like the team. It is impossible to move within Amazon at L4 level. #tech
- vote Should I buy stocks on or after Election Day? What you guys think? #Amazon #Apple #Google
- Rationale behind a 15-min interview, and what to prepare? I've got an interview scheduled with a hiring manager of a BB bank and was told by HR that the call will be a 15min. I was curious who has had experience doing a 15min interview as an interviewer or /viewee and can share what was the focus of the call during the short timeframe. Also, if you were th