How is it better run if most ex-employees and current think it's a place where to succeed you must hoard knowledge and play a crazy political game where your goal is to always have someone on the team ready to chop. If you don't know who that is on your team it's probably you.
Your pay is equal to three card monty. You are promised something big when you get hired but it gets spread over 4 years and most of it only vests at the end. Then you find out most employees are pushed out within 2 years and you realize only 10-20% will ever survive to get the amount you expected when you joined. If you make it this far they do it again for more money. The odds of you staying are even less...
While this is happening they give you 8 hours of meetings and expect 8 hours of development. You end up working 16 hours a day. You end up so tired and confused you keep going until you burn out. At that point they ppe you.
The best way to survive at Amazon is find dirt on your boss. Hire a pi. Coast and use that information to keep you employed. Rinse and repeat for new bosses.
It is not run well. Taking these practices and putting them on a regular business wouldn't work. Amazon (Google, Apple, Facebook..) will keep increasing in value regardless of management style (each one of those companies have different culture) because of factors outside of this. They could require everyone to be left handed.. or speak French or be able to ski and they would still succeed.
The compensation blew my mind when I worked there.
At the end of my first year I got "exceeds" and a large comp bump (almost all of it from RSUs).
Those RSUs would start vesting one year after this "exceeds" conversation took place--April 1st (start of Q1 a year later).
So I'd get a (small) vest ~13 months later. Considering the average tenure (typically 18 months from what I heard from a higher-up in my org), the deck is stacked against actually making the big comp numbers. You work very hard to make more if you can survive another year after you worked hard. Odds are good you won't.
how do you get anything done with such a huge turnover? Maybe it's because we're small but it would be impossible for us to accomplish hardly anything useful at that rate of training replacements
Your pay is equal to three card monty. You are promised something big when you get hired but it gets spread over 4 years and most of it only vests at the end. Then you find out most employees are pushed out within 2 years and you realize only 10-20% will ever survive to get the amount you expected when you joined. If you make it this far they do it again for more money. The odds of you staying are even less...
While this is happening they give you 8 hours of meetings and expect 8 hours of development. You end up working 16 hours a day. You end up so tired and confused you keep going until you burn out. At that point they ppe you.
The best way to survive at Amazon is find dirt on your boss. Hire a pi. Coast and use that information to keep you employed. Rinse and repeat for new bosses.
It is not run well. Taking these practices and putting them on a regular business wouldn't work. Amazon (Google, Apple, Facebook..) will keep increasing in value regardless of management style (each one of those companies have different culture) because of factors outside of this. They could require everyone to be left handed.. or speak French or be able to ski and they would still succeed.