Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders
by andrewguenther on Friday April 08, 2016 @10:55AM
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The thing that I like about working at Amazon is that they don't push the "Kool-Aid" culture that I sense from Facebook, Google, and Apple. I come to work, I feel proud of what I've done, I go home. That is it. That is what I want out of a job. I don't want to be a "Googler," or be told that I'm "changing the world" as I deploy a new sticker pack of poop emojis to Messenger. I want a job, not a cult.
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The funny thing about your statement is that you are drinking your own version of koolaid at Amazon.
FWIW, there is definitely koolaid mentality at Google and Facebook (source: worked at, and have lots of friends at both), but it's not the same way as you think. People are proud of what the company has accomplished as a whole in changing the world, but they aren't as blind to think that the feature that they added to a product is world changing in itself.
From interviewing and having friends that currently and have worked in facebook, google, apple and amazon, it's not like that at all.
Re:Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders
by westernmostcoy on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:31PM
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Employees of other companies are not a cult, though this perception is common internally to Amazon. It discourages you from quitting, and stigmatizes people who leave.
Think about this next time you have a conversation where everyone quotes the leadership principles.