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I'm quite surprised that of all the famous Silicon Valley people, and their rallying behind Jeff Bezos, no one seems to believe that some part of these many man

I'm quite surprised that of all the famous Silicon Valley people, and their rallying behind Jeff Bezos, no one seems to believe that some part of these many many stories could be true. Either that, or they seem to think that only incompetent people are complaining. Therefore I must post part of my comment I posted here [1]. One of my good friend, who was suffering at Amazon, is thriving at Google. He's done amazingly well for himself and for Google in past 1 year he's been there (& has been well recognized within the org). This is not incompetence. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10070115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10070115

badpenny 11y ago
> I'm quite surprised that of all the famous Silicon Valley people, and their rallying behind Jeff Bezos, no one seems to believe that some part of these many many stories could be true. I'm sure they know it's true, it's just that they're all guilty of it. From what I keep hearing, it sounds like it's part of the culture.
dboreham 11y ago
Presumably they imagine that they might need to do a deal with Amazon in the future, or get a job there.
joesmo 11y ago
Honestly, it doesn't matter what SV people think. If they want to claim this isn't true, they're essentially claiming a mass employee conspiracy. Let's see, a mass employee conspiracy against Amazon or Amazon, a large company, treating its workers like shit? Gee, I wonder which one is more plausible.
- eternalban 11y ago
  Behold the Power of NYTimes. Dear European publishing giant (you know who) weary of Google take note how it is to be done when it is done in USA.
bsder 11y ago
> I'm quite surprised that of all the famous Silicon Valley people, and their rallying behind Jeff Bezos Because this isn't news to anybody. I've known that working for Amazon sucks since 2005? And I'm not even in software. I presume software professionals have known longer than that. That's how bad Amazon's reputation is. What new is that it's getting press outside of Silly Valley. Thus, the rallying. Just about every Silicon Valley company will come in for a shellacking once people actually start looking at them.

badpenny 11y ago

> I'm quite surprised that of all the famous Silicon Valley people, and their rallying behind Jeff Bezos, no one seems to believe that some part of these many many stories could be true. I'm sure they know it's true, it's just that they're all guilty of it. From what I keep hearing, it sounds like it's part of the culture.

dboreham 11y ago

Presumably they imagine that they might need to do a deal with Amazon in the future, or get a job there.

joesmo 11y ago

Honestly, it doesn't matter what SV people think. If they want to claim this isn't true, they're essentially claiming a mass employee conspiracy. Let's see, a mass employee conspiracy against Amazon or Amazon, a large company, treating its workers like shit? Gee, I wonder which one is more plausible.

eternalban 11y ago
Behold the Power of NYTimes. Dear European publishing giant (you know who) weary of Google take note how it is to be done when it is done in USA.

bsder 11y ago

> I'm quite surprised that of all the famous Silicon Valley people, and their rallying behind Jeff Bezos Because this isn't news to anybody. I've known that working for Amazon sucks since 2005? And I'm not even in software. I presume software professionals have known longer than that. That's how bad Amazon's reputation is. What new is that it's getting press outside of Silly Valley. Thus, the rallying. Just about every Silicon Valley company will come in for a shellacking once people actually start looking at them.