Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees

Re:Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees by blindhippo on Sunday April 27, 2014 @12:18AM (#7653950)

Ahh, this explains why I, a web developer in the middle of the Canadian Prairies keeps getting hit up by Amazon's recruiters. Quite possibly they've poisoned their local talent pools so much they have to pull in naive people from out of market.

Glad I saw this article - now I don't need to fret about whether I should respond to the email. Just the very fact this article was written signals enormous alarm bells for anyone considering moving to work at Amazon.

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Re:Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees by dandroid1 on Sunday April 27, 2014 @01:10AM (#7654066)

You are very naive if simple blog spam articles like these influence you that much.

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Re:Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees by blindhippo on Sunday April 27, 2014 @03:54PM (#7656549)

Actually, it's pretty naive of you to assume that this is the ONLY article that I might have read documenting Amazon's work culture. Moving across the country to work for a foreign company isn't the type of decision to be made lightly.

Amazon has a terrible reputation, as evidenced by this article as well as a simple google search for "amazon work culture". And that reputation is costing them talent.

That's all I was getting at...

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Re:Amazon's Stressed Out Culture Is Burning Out Employees by jnbiche on Sunday April 27, 2014 @02:01AM (#7654149)

For trusting blogspam, maybe. For putting stock in the comments elsewhere under this post, not so much.

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