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My experience at Amazon was straight up abusive. It is a hostile work environment and it should not be tolerated. If you have any self respect, do not go to wo
by MCRed 11y ago
My experience at Amazon was straight up abusive. It is a hostile work environment and it should not be tolerated.
If you have any self respect, do not go to work there. The only way abusive companies can learn is when their abuse is discovered and they have trouble hiring good employees.
The apologists and the rationalizers and the Amazon PR machine are out in full force.
this is not surprising, because the core methodology of Amazon's abuse is its cult nature.
Amazon is very much like a cult. The stories I read about scientology remind me much of my time at Amazon.
They lionize Bezos because they want to pretend he's like steve jobs (these same propagandists are why most of you think steve jobs was an asshole, by the way)
Reality is, he's a master manipulator, a poor business man, and terrible at technology and leadership.
But he did create a cult. He's more like charles manson.
So expect the cultists to continue to be out in force.
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- chambo622 11y ago> Reality is, he's a master manipulator, a poor business man, and terrible at technology and leadership. Your argument really breaks down here. Reality contradicts these assertions.
- johneth 11y ago> terrible at technology and leadership While I'm not suggesting that he's not successful in many ways, he's also been (and still is) quite bad at these two things. On the technology front, the terribleness that immediately comes to mind are the Fire Phone, Prime Instant Video's UI, Amazon's UI in general, their godawful search, and so on. On the leadership front... well... there are all these accusations of an awful workplace culture stemming from the top man.
- sokoloff 11y agoIt appears self-evident that he's at least an adequate technology leader. He's leading a company that is the undisputed (current) leader in cloud computing and running an extremely fast growing and profitable technology business there. IMO, that put his well into the top 0.1% of technology leaders, but even if you don't agree with that, if results mean anything, I think you can agree that he's not terrible at it. The Amazon UI might not be to your taste or beautiful, but there's no question that it's efficient at enabling customers to find and buy their retail items at a rapid clip. IMO, Prime Pantry's search is pretty decent; the selection over which they're searching is poor, but the search itself seems decent.