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The amazon-is-hell and life-is-torture posts just keep on racking. As someone whose not worked at amazon or has close friends there, other than the PIP, what else makes the work culture bad? I did see one post yesterday where the person loved his life at amazon, so I’m sure it’s not all bad. But is it just some groups or managers or just AWS or something else? #AWS #amazon
You know how some people have weird fetishes like being humiliated or whipped? I think it’s the same people that join Amazon because they’re both simultaneously whipped and humiliated.
Amazon has ~1300000 employees Facebook has 60,000 Google has 140,000 Netflix has 12,000 Assuming each of these companies has 10% people not happy with the company... You will have 130K Amazon employees complaining But just 6K, 14K and 1.2K from the others Result: You will hear a lot more negatives about Amazon. And you will end up rejecting a wonderful offer.
Interesting take. But don’t you think the hire to fire policy has something to do with this, which clearly other companies don’t have
Why would u use non tech employee count here when doing an apples to apples comparison. Most of that 1.3m is logistics and warehouse workers (whom u underpay). Nice try dkhb70
~8 out of 10 people I know who worked for Amazon hated their experience there
Amazon has a work culture that implicitly encourages office politics. It takes office politics and pours petrol on the fire with URA. There's actually very clever reasons it does this. The entire system works *brilliantly* if you have 7 years inside Amazon and are godparent to your VP's second child. If you have I think the red badge for "I've survived 5 years at Amazon," and you've figured out how not to be miserable? You're all set and you have FAANG sized golden handcuffs keeping you there. However, there are winners and losers to the Amazon system.
So if ur claim is right then Bezos has done this on purpose - which is why it makes sense that he’s hated more than zuck by people in tech.
Bezos doesn't want even a single person to be happy.
I have met people who said their amazon experience has been good or fine. I have also heard some bad things as well. But if you look at blind a lot of ppl hating amazon (deserves or not) are the same people. There are probably plenty working there right now happily.
That's just most are college hires who don't even know how a normal workplace functions. Even on private lounge the people who defend amazon argue that it's same everywhere. It's definitely not. Even the second worst workplace I've worked at is thousand times better than Amazon. TLDR: Stockholm Syndrome.
Nope it’s that bad. Racist. HR is not there for employees. Under paying most employees. Overworking employees. Low Benefits. Terrible work life balance. People who don’t care about diversity. 70% attrition - people stay because of the compensation structure. It’s a plantation complete with a caste system in leveling and complete with indentured servitude work structure
Wow 😯
First two years it was fine. After that it was all downhill. The culture is horrible - managers are feudal lords with immense powers.
So I thought Amazon wasn’t too bad. It was my first job in tech, everything is so cool, cool projects, smart engineers, and my managers know what they are talking about and push me in the right direction. Uh… I was wrong. I work at Google now but keeping the Amazon tag until blind forces me to change it. After being here, I never knew how bad Amazon actually was. I don’t need to describe it, as there are a billion posts on here doing that for me. I brushed a lot under the rug, blew it off, pretended that the bad things really weren’t bad. But that’s just pretending. It is that bad.
Seen good and bad while I’ve been here. The bad times really were awful - your life starts to fall apart around you, cause you don’t have any time or energy to solve your personal problems. But healthy teams exist, they just have few or no vacancies at any given time. I’m now in a good one, and they’ll have to pip me to get me out of the team because I’m not ever risking ending up in another bad team.
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