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Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders by inopinatus on Friday April 08, 2016 @12:37AM (#11452602)
I'll echo that from personal experience. I left AWS to start my current company. I had a regret-prevention imperative to do so, but it was still the toughest call.

Amazon's culture is highly polarising. The emergent properties of which are all the truths and lies you ever read about the place.

Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders by karmelapple on Friday April 08, 2016 @06:41AM (#11453752)
Can you confirm any truths or deny any lies?
Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders by andrewguenther on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:00AM (#11455067)
My views don't represent that of my employer yada yada yada.

Anything in the NYTimes piece that wasn't a personal story was grounded in truth, but spun as bullshit. It was a hit piece. There are bad teams, but at a company of this size, there will always be bad teams, and I am sorry for the poor experiences that people seem to have had, but I would hardly call them widespread. The entire article has really become a bit of an internal joke. That is how ridiculous many people find their claims.

Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders by Yhippa on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:47PM (#11456481)
You could probably find enough dirt in any Fortune 500 company, style it up, and put out an article similar to the Amazon one.
Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders by debacle on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:58PM (#11456979)
Especially if you were being paid to do it.