Re:Bye, Amazon
by softwaredoug on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:47PM
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Also why a FAANG anticompetitive stranglehold on tech is so horrifying. If you speak out against Amazon, will another tech giant hire you? Probably not...
There are alternatives though. You tend to get paid a lot if the work is very dangerous, soul-devouring, only very few people can do it, or you're expected to look the other way.
When you pass on working on the new team that uses ML to predict the likelihood of workers knowing their rights based on resume and application cover letter, you may not make the $400k total comp next year, but it's not like you'll be unemployed either. There's plenty of work at pretty normal companies to be done. They won't pay as good, it may not sounds as impressive and you may have to explain at family dinners what your company does, but it's an option.
The DoJ needs to bring it's antitrust division to bear on Amazon.
Re:Bye, Amazon
by quantified on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:20AM
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I will.
Cool, so don't work for them.
At a minimum, Facebook, Amazon and Google should be split up.
Apple are trying to kill general purpose computing.
Netflix - well, they're just selling sugar water, I suppose they're the best of a bad bunch.
I'd just want to point out that the workers who are in the middle are the ones who can afford to do so financially and have the power to make management change things. If you're a programmer and make decent money, consider not putting yourself in a position where you must compromise your morals, such as accepting the company you work for firing whistleblowers over poor work conditions. $100k in the bank makes it a hell of a lot easier to decide to organize.