None of this surprises me. I was at that company for over 10 years. Quitting was the best thing I did for myself, and I should have left long ago.
Amazon’s real innovation isn’t a cloud service company or a logistics business. The innovation is on how to squeeze every once of labor and value out of a human being, and how to do this legally, without damaging customers’ or public opinion of the company, at massive scale.
As a leader, I was coached on how to motivate my employees by selling promotions as a carrot, even though my leadership had no interest in seeing through that person gets promoted. It was lies and gaslighting.
I was coached on detaching myself from employees and their well being, so it would make it easier to do the right thing for the company.
I was pressured to get onto specific managers who weren’t meeting their attrition targets.
The idea that amazon would walk back compensation targets is no surprise to me.
Any article about Amazon is guaranteed to inspire a grave post like this from a former employee. And as a former employee, I agree with the sentiment in nearly all of them.
Honestly, I started Amazon with some kick ass managers and a great leadership team. However, that changed after a year or two and I ended up with some of the shittiest leaders I've had in the industry. I couldn't bail quick enough.
>Amazon’s real innovation isn’t a cloud service company or a logistics business. The innovation is on how to squeeze every once of labor and value out of a human being, and how to do this legally, without damaging customers’ or public opinion of the company, at massive scale.
I think this is bang on. Their hiring process for engineers every single time I've been contacted by them is an immediate (before you could possibly have a clue if you want the job or not) is a tech challenge.
It's industrialized hiring that puts 100% of the burden immediately on the candidate at virtually no cost to amazon.
This is a huge red flag and I halt the process with any employer that uses it.
Have you worked in any big company afterward (or before) that was not toxic? The reason of my question: I work in a very big company, and I found it very toxic. I wonder if all big companies are the same.
I need to know if I would switch. But I do not want to go to smaller company.
I prefer small start-ups to big companies but I have worked at a fair number of the latter. I enjoyed my time at Microsoft, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and Epson. I did not care much for Novell, Corel, Amazon, Rakuten, and WordPerfect.
One of the most toxic things of the company, is the possibility of being sued for virtually anything. So I prefer not even name them. It is a automotive supplier in the EU.
If a company is going to give some employees a bad taste in their mouth, I would think the very last group to do that to would be those recently promoted. Those are people that just got the seal of approval from Amazon and are in the best position to jump to another company.
Amazon’s real innovation isn’t a cloud service company or a logistics business. The innovation is on how to squeeze every once of labor and value out of a human being, and how to do this legally, without damaging customers’ or public opinion of the company, at massive scale.
As a leader, I was coached on how to motivate my employees by selling promotions as a carrot, even though my leadership had no interest in seeing through that person gets promoted. It was lies and gaslighting.
I was coached on detaching myself from employees and their well being, so it would make it easier to do the right thing for the company.
I was pressured to get onto specific managers who weren’t meeting their attrition targets.
The idea that amazon would walk back compensation targets is no surprise to me.