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文章来自bloomberg
I think the example of the work hours in the article is not typical for AWS,
but the rest sounds true. Cool that Amazon (reportedly) introduced vesting
during maternal leave now!
The existing environment at Amazon just does not value your loyalty one bit.
The business (not individual managers) treats you like a cog too
transparently, and don’t bother to steer culture in a way that builds
supportive collaborative teams. Ok, then predictably, engineers will treat
Amazon as a swappable bank in return. They will demand higher comp, get it
and then leave anyway.
Amazon can do way better. I firmly believe it is possible to maintain a
high performing environment while creating a better place to work. I love
AWS builder culture and it’s approach to tech, but Amazon got mixed with
some fetish of hyper individualism (in promo, reviews) and ruthless
performance pressure with (lately) deminishing rewards (stock
underperformance). As result, few teams have good continueity. It is just
lonely and soul crushing to work that way regardless of paycheck size.
Amazon’s current version of “Lead with empathy”… is something like “how
can we help you address your weaknesses, so you could deliver more and get
a promo with a tiny raise in 2 years? Maybe you want to try more bias for
action?”. Yeah, in getting a more competitive offer with a less stressful
job.
I once spoke to AWS HR about offering an option of a health-care spending
account like other companies offer. For people with a spouse that already
have a family insurance it makes no sense to duplicate it. I asked to give
$2k (about what insurance costs) to people who want that instead. It would
cost only marginally more to company to offer it. Their response was along
the lines of “we are egalitarian company and so we benchmark not only
against tech companies but vs. all companies we compete with”. ie, we can
’t offer this to warehouse workers because their competitors don’t, and so
can’t offer it to engineers either.
Good luck with that approach in an open market! The warehouse turnover is
reportedly 150%. Clearly not something that would work in a high tech
sector. They want to pretend to treat engineers that make $200-400k about
the same as seasonal wage workers. This is some verbal gymnastics as you are
clearly not paying them the same by many multiples.
My bet is Amazon makes big changes very soon or lose 30-40% senior staff by
the end of this year. Maybe they decided to downsize and trim the top. Ok.
But it will kill morale, tank reputation and will stop the Amazon
innovation engine in its tracks.
Maybe it is not too late to stop Amazoxedus! I am not sure if they let it
go too far already. The only good news for folks there is that there are
many open VP reqs now ;) and it is a great time to ask for a massive raise
which you deserve (according to market). Did not work for all those VPs,
but will soon start to work for many. Don’t sell yourself short! |
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