Ask HN: I work for AWS. How do I encourage change for Amazon warehouse workers?
What you were supposed to do was not go work at Amazon, just like plenty of us won&#x27;t work for Facebook, etc. Amazon being a terrible place to work isn&#x27;t something new or foreign to us SWEs. Hell, every time they tried to interview me they&#x27;d tell me about how AWS is &quot;run like a startup&quot; and has very little do with the rest of the company. That&#x27;s telling right there.<p>Don&#x27;t let them have our engineering talent even if they offer you the moon (like Brays $1mil&#x2F;yr). They should be fighting to repair their reputation to even be able to hire SWEs&#x2F;etc but because people pop out of College and want to go make $120k (or people who only care about their income and not ethics) they have no problem keeping that boat full of new blood.<p>I cannot fathom making $1m as a SWE over 5 years while the massive majority of my company are treated like cannon fodder and it&#x27;s well known throughout.. oh, everywhere. It&#x27;s really easy to quit and sound like a hero in that situation. You&#x27;re not a hero. You were still part of the problem that we&#x27;ve known about for a long time.