Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After E-Mail to Staff
Amazon screws employees in ways unseen in other companies. From the perspective of an engineer, this is a terrible place for people to work and grow. To list a few things:<p>- Equity vesting schedule is 5%, 15%, 40%, 40% over 4 years<p>- Relocation package is prorated for TWO years. If you leave after staying for a full year, you still need to return 50% of it.<p>- 401K matching only vests after working for 3 years. If you leave within 3 years, no matching for you whatsoever.<p>- No tuition reimbursement. Want to get a part-time masters in CS? Pay it yourself!
- No catered food. No free soda. No free snacks. If you are hungry, you can eat at one of the shltty cafes.<p>- Obnoxious oncall routines. You are woken up 3:30am waiting for the event to be over. Why not automate things? Because replacing people is cheaper than building great software!<p>This is Amazon&#x27;s mindset TOPDOWN. The root of the problem is that the leadership does NOT care about employees or technology. This is a retailer and a powdered Walmart, what do you expect?!<p>SDE 1 and SDE 2 are simply the slaves working at a sweatshop. Some of my co-workers are hired without onsite interviews. They do some video chat and they are hired at Amazon. They don&#x27;t even know how to write bash scripts. Our team used to have technical program managers who can&#x27;t even write a Python script. With simple things like running a command line tool, he cuts a ticket and let the engineers do it.<p>The managers at Amazon pocket bonuses and don&#x27;t give a damn. They don&#x27;t carry pagers and when they do, they just page lower level employees. The only reason people take offers at Amazon is that they can&#x27;t get better packages from Facebook&#x2F;Google.<p>* I worked at AWS for 2 years.