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I actually worked at Amazon on the tool that crawled the web looking for lower prices on products which Amazon had a most favored nation clause on. This was in
by googlryas 4y ago
I actually worked at Amazon on the tool that crawled the web looking for lower prices on products which Amazon had a most favored nation clause on. This was in 2012 and the tool had been broken for multiple years and no one cared until I found it and fixed it.
After I fixed it I think in the first year it "made" Amazon $30M in lower payments to vendors(though it is hard to attribute exact monetary values due to complexity of the contracts)
But no one cared, I barely got any praise, no promo or anything. So I quit and went somewhere else.
- GauntletWizard 4y agoIf I had a dime for every story like yours I'd read, I'd have a few dollars. Which is saying something, because I don't talk to Amazon or Ex Amazon people all that often.
- googlryas 4y agoMove here to Seattle and you can't throw a rock without hitting a current or ex Amazon employee:) But also please don't throw rocks at us.
- GauntletWizard 4y agoOh, I live in Seattle myself. I just know the warning signs to avoid.
- googlryas 4y agoSeems a little bigoted to judge 75,000 people like that, but to each their own.
- GauntletWizard 4y agoIt was a joke, though it is true that my friends circles don't happen to include that many people from Amazon, and I still have many stories of broken business processes there.