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I've worked with several ex-amazon managers & I agree. They are carefully trained to over promise, treat the business/product arm as an adversary not a colleag
by ErrantX 4y ago
I've worked with several ex-amazon managers & I agree.
They are carefully trained to over promise, treat the business/product arm as an adversary not a colleague and burn out engineers to hit deadlines.
0 empathy.
(Often these are not bad people, they have just been conditioned that this is an effective way to operate; my theory is it's the warehouse mentality that A employs at dist centers translated to the office)
- volkadav 4y agoCompletely agree. I spent five years at OCI, an AWS competitor in Seattle, and during that time had seven managers (I think, maybe I missed some hi-bye reorg). The rock bottom worst two of them had all of their prior management experience at Amazon, and their managerial pathologies were similar: zero empathy, absurdly two-faced, optics-obsessed, complete grin-fucker sadists to their underlings. Both of them ended up leaving my erstwhile employer and returning to Uncle Jeff's dickhead spawning grounds. "Too big of an asshole to be a culture fit" when the culture in question is Oracle should tell any reader everything they need to know about a culture where they do fit in. :p