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Re:Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40... by notyourwork on Thursday August 24, 2017 @12:15AM (#15087556)
One person taking advantage of travel doesn't imply the entire companies frugality principle is a facade.
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Re:Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40... by nsxwolf on Thursday August 24, 2017 @12:33AM (#15087608)
Their recruiting technique of flying thousands of random LinkedIn users to Seattle every week for fruitless interviews doesn't seem very frugal.
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Re:Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40... by millstone on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:43AM (#15087852)
It's not! Instead it's part of principle #6, "hire the best." Hire the best, frugally.

Their leadership principles are deliberately contradictory. This is ostensibly a strength: you are tasked with satisfying all of them at once. But I fear in practice it's license to justify any management behavior.

Source: oh god I interviewed there.

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Re:Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40... by notyourwork on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:58AM (#15090133)
Sounds like bitterness because you weren't offered a position.
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