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Your mileage may very but I only worked 40 hours a week when I was there and I also got promoted in about a year and a half.
by mrep 5y ago
Your mileage may very but I only worked 40 hours a week when I was there and I also got promoted in about a year and a half.
- ipaddr 5y agoWhy did you leave?
- mrep 5y agoGOOG pay + benefits > AMZN. No on-call at GOOG too which is nice and I get to work for Google maps which is like my favorite software application as I use it every time I drive. I'd consider going back for a fully remote job with like a 35% pay bump though. Although if I'm just going for the money, I'd probably switch to one of the trading firms that have been hounding me. Got one email recently for a fully remote job with compensation wide open (anywhere from 275k-650k+).
- azemetre 5y agoYou have to understand their concern though, there are so many terrible stories about working for Amazon that it seems to be the expected norm rather than the reverse. What's even worse is that it permeates throughout the entire company, every division, every org. You have this article written nearly 7-years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-... Money quote: > “You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face,” he said. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.” The culture only seems to have gotten worse. Another person posted elsewhere but Amazon seems to be doing anything they can but actually fixing their toxic culture. I've worked one bad job and there's no amount of money I would accept to mitigate the loss in quality of sleep, becoming depressed when going to work, and dreading when I had to communicate with anyone.