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> 1. Word about how bad they are to work for becomes sufficiently widespread among prospective top employees that recruiting becomes a challenge. I'd say word
by xkjkls 9y ago
> 1. Word about how bad they are to work for becomes sufficiently widespread among prospective top employees that recruiting becomes a challenge.
I'd say word about Amazon's working environment is heavily overblown. There are many people who have worked there for years on end and greatly enjoy the experience, and their reputation still allows them the pick of the litter of any Comp Sci/MBA graduates.
- btilly 9y agoWhat they are like as an employer tends to be a binary experience. It is great until it is not, and afterwards you don't know how you ever managed to stand it. Their leadership principles require people to have no defensive behavior. Their actual organization style makes it very easy to create defensive behavior. As long as you and those in your immediate environment are not defensive, the result works very well. However when defensive behavior gets tripped with people who are pretending not to be defensive, things very quickly go pear shaped. Source, my personal observations from having worked there, combined with many conversations after I left with people who also left. One of whom had not only been there for years, but for most of that time was one of the people who would be brought in to sell wavering recruits because of how loudly he sang their praises as a place to work.