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Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

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Re: Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

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Post by alephnerd »

pton_xd wrote: post #10

I think this was a pretty obvious end-goal when they required everyone to relocate back to Seattle and go in 3 days a week. As a tangent, everyone I know at Amazon is over-worked and stressed out. I legitimately don't know anyone whose happy there. How is that a sustainable corporate culture?

> How is that a sustainable corporate culture

Take a look at the hiring market today. Not that many options.

It's scummy and imo represents bad leadership (a lot of the good Amazonians in mid-level management got poached during the pandemic which caused some internal degradation as their replacements were strong but not as experienced with 0-to-1 + ), but there really aren't many other options that can pay Amazon level.

Hybrid (2-3 days in the office) solves most of your communication needs at the leadership level. 5 days is just too much.

+ A lot of the all-star PM and Eng leadership I knew of at AWS were poached during the pandemic to leadership or leadership track positions at plenty of companies (eg. Datadog, Felicis, Google, etc)

Re: Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

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Post by thousand_nights »

i can't believe how out of touch some of these rich corporate execs are, as if everyone's aim in life should be to pour every ounce of their energy to make some massive trillion dollar corporation even richer

this capitalistic yearn for endless growth is such a parasitic meat grinder

they write these memos with "touching" stories, i started from the bottom here, 27 years, amazon is my life, blah blah, as if anyone, pardon my french, gives a flying fuck

Re: Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

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Post by tra3 »

Color me surprised..

> the company is giving employees until Jan. 2 to start adhering to the new policy

More quiet firing?

> also plans to simplify its corporate structure by having fewer managers in order to “remove layers and flatten organizations,”

Combined with not so quiet firing?

> Jassy took the helm and instituted widespread cost cuts across Amazon, including the largest layoffs in its 27 years as a public company.

Cost cuts worked great for Boeing. Can't wait to see Amazon stock go through the roof.

Re: Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

alephnerd wrote: post #21
pton_xd wrote: post #10

I think this was a pretty obvious end-goal when they required everyone to relocate back to Seattle and go in 3 days a week. As a tangent, everyone I know at Amazon is over-worked and stressed out. I legitimately don't know anyone whose happy there. How is that a sustainable corporate culture?

> How is that a sustainable corporate culture Take a look at the hiring market today. Not that many options. It's scummy and imo represents bad leadership (a lot of the good Amazonians in mid-level management got poached during the pandemic which caused some internal degradation as their replacements were strong but not as experienced with 0-to-1 + ), but there really aren't many other options that can pay Amazon lev…

Amazon has been Like This since long before the pandemic and the tech downturn. I was told they were Like This when I was finishing undergrad.
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