Amazon begged to interview, so i did. My friend worked there, and thought I go call her and find out how things worked there. That is when I discovered this forced termination of 30%. I thought it was 15% , but who's counting. So I gave amazon a choice. 2 year contract forced pay contract, if they fired me for any reason, other than fraud, I would collect the full amount. I done this twice.
It was a defunct mobile company. I had the contracting company put it in the paperwork, to my surprise they signed. cause they have multiple times let go of contractors to make C level "bonus". It was known for it. I got some push back, but they signed it, they needed an engineer who understood mobile routing records.
3 months into the contract, they apparently forgot, and let me and everyone go. Reason 'services no longer needed' aka CEO wanted to make bonus. I said ok, then called the contractor's legal dept. After 3 days, i got a call back. Told him look at page 4 line 30.. he read it. Long silence. 5 minutes of silence. "I never seen a clause like this. I will call you back with an answer." Next day, Both lawyers call, one asked would i be interested in returning. I said "fufill the contract terms". "Your check will be delivered in two weeks." Contracting firm, was getting paid too. they were happy and mad. Happy for $$$, mad that they probably lost a semi big client.
I got my check, had a new contract before the 2 weeks.
Fast forword to Amazon. They read it and said no. I declined. They offered little more, but I said I will not work for Amazon until they fix their corporate envirnoment. My friend worked there, she lasted 4 months more, after moving to Seattle, and finding out the hard way that amazon is pure corporate monster.