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As far as I can remember, Amazon never had perks for employees. Except for free coffee and tea in the kitchens. That's it. I remember back in 2002 (?) when the
by chihuahua 3y ago
As far as I can remember, Amazon never had perks for employees. Except for free coffee and tea in the kitchens. That's it.
I remember back in 2002 (?) when the 2-pizza team idea was introduced. My manager said he would find out how we could expense the pizza. It turns out that the pizza was merely theoretical: the team should be sized so that, if there were pizza, then 2 pizzas would be enough for the team. But that doesn't mean that pizza would ever be ordered or expensed.
- spenczar5 3y agoTwitch did the free food and snacks thing. When acquired by Amazon, Twitch opened a Seattle office, on a floor of an existing Amazon building. We got to keep getting free food! Every day around lunchtime, hungry Amazon workers from adjacent floors would quietly try to slip in to get a sandwich or a kebab or whatever, or would surreptitiously attempt to get a bag of chips. Eventually the Twitch side started to complain: there was never enough food to go around at lunch time. If you were more than ten minutes late, all the food would be gone. The Amazon management’s response? Lock off the Twitch floor so it required special badges for access. Let the Amazonians starve!
- chihuahua 3y agoThat is exactly what I expected to happen.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoTBH I expected that everyone would lose the free food
- nradov 3y agoThe last thing most tech workers need is more chips.
- tonyedgecombe 3y agoYeah, free food looks like a negative to me.
- wyclif 3y agoI remember the same thing with the door desks. I was impressed at the time (I was young): "Wow, this company not only uses Pine for email but they're smart enough to know that fancy desks aren't necessary." That was obviously a long time ago, but that attitude didn't last long, especially when I saw how absolutely venal the company was becoming.
- axpy906 3y agoAmazon gives out free bananas.