What policies do other FAANG companies have?
Sep 29, 2021
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Referring to Amazon : pop’s while wife DIES of cancer thread
How is it better in other companies? Say Google , Microsoft
Just curious. I saw someone ask that question but not lot of replies on it .
My question is about medical leave etc and not PIP
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One guy’s wife committed suicide. They let him take all of his sick leave (you can bank quite a bit) and then medical leave for as long as he needed (about two months, you keep health insurance for the first 90 days) Let him go part time at first to get back on his feet after that. Felt terrible for him, he was a shell of himself after that.
Another guy’s parents got very sick. They let him work remote until his retirement (he was a few years away from it). It absolutely made him less effective at his job being fully remote.
There was another guy who got cancer. Instantly let him take long term disability (about 2/3 of salary, keep insurance indefinitely) and offloaded all of his work. Like the DAY he informed his manager this all happened. I know because it was the last day I saw him. He died about four months later.
Numerous instances of people in bad car accidents that resulted in them being gone for many weeks and even months and then returning part time (due to decreased mobility) for several more months until they had fully recovered. No penalties for lower performance. All allowed short or long term disability (this is now a company wide benefit, but used to be one negotiated by the union).
The thing is, this really wasn’t all THAT much effort. It was just normal compassion and not holding something like cancer or suicide against someone. Of course their performance will suffer! But you let that slide because you aren’t an inhuman robot living in the Bezos salt mines.
A lot of colleagues on work visa were thankful that the company took care of them despite being let go.
Wouldn't expect Amazon to come anywhere close to this. Also why i'll never work for Amazon.