Re:Amazon Pip Horror Story
by urthor on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:23AM
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Amazon's mentality is pretty clever I think. The entire company is designed to repeatedly test all its employees till failure by piling on the workload until they say uncle, then backing off 20% if they push-back.
It's a crazy approach that probably falls apart if you're unsuccessful. But they're very successful so they can just keep burning money to attract new hires. Also, I imagine it's a huge career builder if you work in FMCG or development to have "Amazon retail" or "Amazon Web Services" on your resume. Since everyone uses those platforms.
I imagine what is left at the end is a residue of "born again" workaholics, who're probably pretty great at their jobs. Who then ascend to and form middle management.
And the global express trundles on, powered by these workaholics.
It's a crazy approach that probably falls apart if you're unsuccessful. But they're very successful so they can just keep burning money to attract new hires. Also, I imagine it's a huge career builder if you work in FMCG or development to have "Amazon retail" or "Amazon Web Services" on your resume. Since everyone uses those platforms.
I imagine what is left at the end is a residue of "born again" workaholics, who're probably pretty great at their jobs. Who then ascend to and form middle management.
And the global express trundles on, powered by these workaholics.