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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by pydry on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:25PM (#46803230)
My experience with ex Amazon managers is that they brought a toxic culture and destroyed more value than they created.

Some people are so focused on whether they could automate their work output with an LLM to ask themselves if they even should.

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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by lazide on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:45PM (#46805896)
An extremely common problem in the wider world too.
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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by moralestapia on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#46817426)
>they brought a toxic culture and destroyed more value than they created

Yeah, I've been in one of such places.

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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by paradox460 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:33PM (#46817748)
Yup

Why did you leave Amazon?

> I couldn't stand the management culture

Sooo... Why are you trying to bring it with you

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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by suzzer99 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:09PM (#46819764)
I got the brunt of this when Amazon banned me from KDP for life over a complete nonsense hallucination by a fraud detection bot.

I thought at some point I'd get to talk to a human who would immediately say "Oh this is ridiculous, sorry." Nope. I just got passed around between either more bots or offshore customer support employees, with I assume a gigantic incentive to not go against the fraud detection bot, until I ran out of appeals.

One of the most soul-sucking experiences I've ever gone through. I can't imagine the toxic culture that produced that system.

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