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This story has got to be really hurting Amazon by now. (I don't mean this specific piece, but the exposure of Amazon's terrible cult-like culture and workplace
by veidr 11y ago
This story has got to be really hurting Amazon by now. (I don't mean this specific piece, but the exposure of Amazon's terrible cult-like culture and workplace environment as a whole.)
Most engineerish people I know, myself included, had already heard through the grapevine that working at Amazon sucks (friends, friends of friends, posts on forums like this).
But now everybody knows it sucks -- Amazon is a shitty place to work, and any decent software engineer has many better options is now as close to an objective fact as it gets.
This must be hurting their recruiting already, and you have to think it will hurt them for years to come. (And if that is true, then it may eventually change the judgement of whether this style of management "worked".)
- x5n1 11y agoAmazon needs to unionize, it's obvious that Bezos and his management don't respect his workers. This sort of company deserves a union. And I think both white collar and blue collar workers there would support such a union.
- studentrob 11y agoYup. I remember hearing about it years ago. You've got to believe that this culture comes from the top. The fact that Bezos is trying to pass the buck and takes no responsibility is telling. Awesome guy, and you have to believe he doesn't want Amazon to be that way, but if he can't take some responsibility for the culture he grew, it can only stay the same or get much, much worse as everyone below him will follow his lead and point fingers.