Why does Blind hate Amazon so much?

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faanggenie

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faanggenie
Oct 7, 2021 58 Comments

Curious where so much hate against amazon while certain other FAANG have poor WLB too?

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  • Amazon / Eng
    Boe👴Jiden

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    Boe👴Jiden
    Have you read the "attrition risk tool" post in the lounge yet?

    A company that spends resources on making a tool to identify attrition risk rather than treating employees better deserves all the hate, and more.
    Oct 7, 2021 17
    • Whats is wrong with that tool? It should encourage your manager to win you back.

      Normally in a smaller organization, this is the manager's responsibility without a tool.
      Oct 7, 2021
    • Zillow, the problem is that instead of working on building a culture that doesn’t push people out the door they will work hard to pull you back in. You shouldn’t, ideally, have to pull people back in.
      Oct 7, 2021
  • Amazon
    aTiz50

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    aTiz50
    🖕
    Oct 7, 2021 0
  • Netflix
    benzene

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    benzene
    Scroll to the company ratings on this post.
    See how Amazon is 3.2 while others are above 4.0?

    Yeah your own employees picked the ratings. So it's not Blind, it's Amazon employees who hate Amazon
    Oct 7, 2021 0
  • Mozilla
    TOYV61

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    TOYV61
    I’ve been in many roles where I’ve worked crazy hours. This alone is not a reason to hate Amazon. The difference is in every role that this has been the case I’ve both received outsized compensation and had managers at every level go out of their way to support me and show me respect for my work.

    One company I was at half my team went to Amazon and the person that left the longest lasted six months before coming back. Every single person shared a varied but cohesive view of what Amazon was like.

    I didn’t bust my ass to claw my way off the farm and into tech to get shit on and abused by some smooth talking psychopath that couldn’t do one quarter of what I can do, then pipped and dumped unceremoniously, despite being a top performer in my field for over a decade.

    Amazon treats people like shit at every level in the organization and sees it as magnanimous that they don’t make SWEs pee in bottles the same way they do delivery drivers. They love hiring South Indian managers because they want their employees abused. Jeff and his leadership team are the type of people that wish slavery was still legal in the US and masturbate while watching the whipping scene in Roots.

    In short, fuck Amazon
    Oct 7, 2021 5
    • Mozilla
      TOYV61

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      TOYV61
      Guy that stayed the longest was 5 months in on a team developing a new product in AWS, and was just getting his stride.

      His whole team got called into a meeting with some VP level folks where they were told that the release timeline was critical and “to provide an incentive a gift had been left on each person’s desk”.

      When he got back to his desk, just like everyone else on his team, there was a “bankers box” on his desk with a sticky note that had the release date written in sharpie. The implication was clear, if they didn’t release on time they’d mass fire the whole team. He and three other people on the team started putting their stuff in the boxes and just walked out.

      This was somebody I had worked closely with who was a very high performer. They weren’t going to take that shit, and I added Amazon to my permanent blacklist after hearing the story. Nothing in the news or on Blind has indicated it’s improving, if anything Amazon seems more cut throat and shitty than ever.
      Oct 7, 2021
    • Walmart
      AVBk51

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      AVBk51
      Holy shit
      Oct 7, 2021