Everyone is quitting
Everytime I hear these stories, there are 2 things that go through my mind.<p>1) I'm never going to work at Amazon<p>2) If you're judging a company based on the experiences of those who are dissatisfied, isn't that always going to be heavily biased?<p>At any large company, there will be many people who are unhappy and dissatisfied. If you go out looking for stories from such people, and compile them into a single digest, it's going to make any company look dysfunctional.<p>Using a glassdoor-esque rating system seems like the best way to judge a company. And Amazon's rating there is 3.4 (<a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-com-Reviews-E6036.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Amazon-com-Reviews-E6036.h...</a>). Which is nowhere near Google (4.4) or Facebook (4.5), but it isn't horrible either. It's even slightly above average (3.3) across all companies in Glassdoor.<p>Which does kind of make sense... no tech company can churn out great technology products over many years, if the work-culture is dysfunctional. Purely for that reason alone, I'm sure Bezos would put a lid on how bad the work culture at Amazon can possibly get.<p>All of which is to say... I get the feeling that Amazon is probably an <i>okay</i> place to work. It's not great. It's probably a little below-average for the tech industry. But it's probably not as dysfunctional as these reviews and horror stories seem to suggest.