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Leaving Amazon (2023)
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- abc-1 2y agoWell put. There’s a reason turnover is so high at these FAANG companies, despite the perks. Amazon is probably the worst of the bunch.
- burnt-resistor 2y agoMicrosoft Netflix Meta Google Apple ... Spotify Amazon ---- But, overall, it's unrealistic to expect to find a productive startup as a functional part of a megacorp. The interests and politics are entirely different. Maybe the closest to a startup large business would be Virgin Group in years gone by.
- GraphWeaver23 2y agoUnfortunately, these have been the problems with Amazon for over a decade. It's what helped them scale, but leads to new engineers feeling powerless to innovate or try anything new. They live by their 14 leadership principles and sometimes use it to enforce behaviors they want from their employees. Hope you're off to a better job
- burnt-resistor 2y agoStart an employee-owned co-op software consultancy to sell into megacorps to do what they're politically or culturally unable to do for themselves while keeping your own employees' work-life balance more-or-less actually balanced, and make potentially more money while retaining your motivation, sanity, and economic stability.
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- burnt-resistor 2y agoYou couldn't pay me $200M TC/year to work at AWS.