Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
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Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#2Yes, the current executive culture of mass layoffs.
Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#3pip culture
Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#4Best decision I ever made was repeatedly ignoring emails from Amazon recruiters while they were allowing remote work around the pandemic. Fuck that place.
Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#5Culture of importing cheaper labor that they can manipulate.
The H1B program is broken and ripe for abuse.
Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#6Culture is driven down so… guess they need to start looking there. :)
Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#7> Jassy explained that as Amazon added headcount, locations and lines of business in recent years, “you end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers … sometimes without realizing it, you can weaken the ownership of the people that you have who are doing the actual work.”
"And here's something else, Bob. I have eight different bosses right now."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Eight bosses."
"Eight?"
"Eight, Bob."Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#8Best decision I ever made was repeatedly ignoring emails from Amazon recruiters while they were allowing remote work around the pandemic. Fuck that place.
Yeah, Amazon is in my list of “won’t work there” places.
Too many horror stories.
Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#9Yes, the current executive culture of mass layoffs.
The culture is "I want another yacht".
Re: Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
#10> Jassy explained that as Amazon added headcount, locations and lines of business in recent years, “you end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers … sometimes without realizing it, you can weaken the ownership of the people that you have who are doing the actual work.” "And here's something else, Bob. I have eight different bosses right now." "I beg your pardon?" "Ei…
> you end up with a lot more people
That's a funny way to describe deliberately wasting thousands of work hours screening, interviewing and hiring people they didn't need. It seems like those making these staffing decisions should be the first to go, yet that never seems to be the case.