Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applications on AWS

Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by fragmede on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:35PM (#14605315)

Simon Head wrote "Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers" back in 2014, and if anything, it's gotten worse since then.

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_...

It's not limited to warehouse workers, either. In 2015 Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld of the New York times published an expose of the hard-charging environment at Amazon, with stories about employees reduced to tears at their desks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...

That was so untrue, that Jeff Bezos felt the need to send out a memo stating how much he has never seen that side of Amazon, which, as CEO, of course he's never been mistreated by middle management.

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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by TulliusCicero on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:09AM (#14612320)

The whole "people crying at their desks" thing was exaggerated and it varies a lot by team. I've worked there and now at Google, Google is much nicer obviously, but Amazon wasn't some dystopian nightmare as sometimes portrayed.

I'm also a mod at /r/cscareerquestions, Amazonians would chime in back when this was big news, but the vast majority were always like "yeah it exists but not my team".

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Re:Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applicati... by KirinDave on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:57PM (#14605583)

I'm glad someone else brought this up. I've been on mobile and walking from site to site all morning and haven't had a chance.

Thank you.

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