The article linked to below has got a fair amount of attention on Twitter today. Would you want to work somewhere that is run like this? Does it seem sustainable as a business model to you? I’d be interested in your views.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think I’d last 5 minutes there.
Compelling rebuttal, although he seemed to barely cover all of the cases of where good people got canned or forced out because they didn’t want to work 80-hour weeks.
After reading these articles and Amazon employee blog, I think it is pretty clear that there are problems at Amazon and that sins were indeed committed in the past.
One person speaking up about how they hate company xyz is maybe a disgruntled former employee. But numerous people speaking up shows a larger issue that fanboy Nick Ciubotariu either can’t see because of his newness to Amazon or because he has drank the Koolaide!
Regardless, I don’t like Amazon and won’t give them my business anymore. (They lost my respect about 10 years ago.)