Office LifeOct 17, 2019

Why all the hate toward Amazon?

I’m not from the bay area so may be a bit naive so can someone please enlighten me why people trash amazon here all the time? I consider amazon an innovative company. AWS was as innovative as iPhone and continues to innovate. When you reference amazon do you mean just the ecommerce company or am I missing something here?

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Microsoft copiedGUID Oct 17, 2019

They pay low, have crap benefits, don’t care about their people. At all.

New York Life Insurance dposx22 Oct 17, 2019

I just got a job at Amazon and they doubled my salary. Don’t think they pay low at all

Amazon broke&dumb Oct 17, 2019

Your baseline is New York Life Insurance. Doesn't count.

Oscar 🐨 🐨 🐨🐨 Oct 17, 2019

They only have bananas. No eggplants 🍆.

Google ppeC15 Oct 17, 2019

Amazon is great to customers and shareholders. Amazon is not so great to employees. Most people trash amazon because of the last thing, not the first 2.

Indeed r2dto Oct 17, 2019

Leaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle. 🍌🍌🍌🍌 https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles

WeWork RPvk36 Oct 17, 2019

Salty hipsters

Egencia dddd01 Oct 17, 2019

Noone force you to stay at amazon. Go somewhere then. I make little money here but I have work life balance !!!

Morgan Stanley anony101 Oct 17, 2019

@OP how do you find Thomson Reuters? TC and location?

Thomson Reuters hswb27 OP Oct 17, 2019

Would stay away. Not what it used to be. The acquisitions and sale over the last 10+ years has created nothing but panic and low productivity. I’ve done relatively good. TC ~200. Used to live in NYC but now remote in Phoenix. ~15 yoe all with TR.

Snapchat 2p2yQB Oct 17, 2019

🍌🍌🍌🍌

Amazon N8rh4a Oct 17, 2019

Amazon likes to burn out employees and doesn’t give the high TC to soothe the pain.

Amazon AWS-Engr Oct 17, 2019

I think Amazon is known to be great to customers and basically anyone who sees the company externally. Internally, some teams/orgs are a mess and there's lots of politics because the bar is low. That being said I love Amazon and I've definitely grown a lot here. Pay is nothing crazy (still competitive) but I'm also not a TC chaser.