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#2I'm not really sure why Amazon's leadership principles are on the first page, but since we're talking about Amazon,
Here's a video with RBC Capital's managing director Mark Mahaney talking about why amazon could be the first trillion dollar business.
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#3"Overwork, underpay, and generally treat people like commoditized dirt."
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#41. Screw
2. Every last employee
3. Out of their last dime
4. Deny
5. Lie
6. Deny the lying
7. Work them to death
8. As soon as it takes the slightest toll on them, fire them
9. Their suppliers too
10. And may God help delivery services
11. Deny
12. Lie about that too
13. Deny lying about it, of course
14. Don't even profit from it (except personally if you're Jeff Bezos, of course, who somehow became a billionaire creating an "extremely frugal" company that pays badly, and in his own words "does not intend to make a profit for the forseeable future")
15. Screw the shareholders too by hyping up an utterly ridiculous valuation
16. Especially deny that !
17. There's really only 14 principles as far as anyone's concerned.
Really what we need for our economy ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/08/18/how-peopl...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-ac...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/amazon-working-conditi...
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/brutal-conditions-in-amaz...
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/its-like-every-s...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/amazon-devas...
At some point there's a pattern.
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#5Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Grouch Marx
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#6Isn't Silicon Valley on tonight?
Re: Amazon's Leadership Principles
#71. Screw 2. Every last employee 3. Out of their last dime 4. Deny 5. Lie 6. Deny the lying 7. Work them to death 8. As soon as it takes the slightest toll on them, fire them 9. Their suppliers too 10. And may God help delivery services 11. Deny 12. Lie about that too 13. Deny lying about it, of course 14. Don't even profit from it (except personally if you're Jeff Bezos, of course, who somehow became a billionaire cr…
Everytime some story about amazon comes up I see someone on HN complain.
Not very productive if all we do is complain. I'm not quite sure how to solve the problem but complaining sure isn't helping.
Re: Amazon's Leadership Principles
#8I'm not really sure why Amazon's leadership principles are on the first page, but since we're talking about Amazon, Here's a video with RBC Capital's managing director Mark Mahaney talking about why amazon could be the first trillion dollar business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8id_1gxOXc
They were mentioned in the popular article today about Travis Kalanick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14178397
Re: Amazon's Leadership Principles
#91. Screw 2. Every last employee 3. Out of their last dime 4. Deny 5. Lie 6. Deny the lying 7. Work them to death 8. As soon as it takes the slightest toll on them, fire them 9. Their suppliers too 10. And may God help delivery services 11. Deny 12. Lie about that too 13. Deny lying about it, of course 14. Don't even profit from it (except personally if you're Jeff Bezos, of course, who somehow became a billionaire cr…
Billionaires are people too...
Re: Amazon's Leadership Principles
#101. Screw 2. Every last employee 3. Out of their last dime 4. Deny 5. Lie 6. Deny the lying 7. Work them to death 8. As soon as it takes the slightest toll on them, fire them 9. Their suppliers too 10. And may God help delivery services 11. Deny 12. Lie about that too 13. Deny lying about it, of course 14. Don't even profit from it (except personally if you're Jeff Bezos, of course, who somehow became a billionaire cr…
I work for Amazon, and my management line all the way up to Jeff is sensible, comprehensible, and human; I have good work-life balance and am able to offer that to my reports; my compensation is fair; and I would escalate immediately if I ever saw anyone abused, mistreated, or cheated.
Amazon's a big company and I'm sure there's terrible managers out there and true harrowing stories. And there are problems, here and there, and things I'd love to change. But if there was a pervasive, total cultural failure at Amazon, I'd have seen it by now.