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☆ I'm a former Amazon VP who once laid off a third of a startup I had helped build. Here's what I learned about handling layoffs.
  + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Ethan Evans | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
I once laid off one-third of the startup I had just helped to build. As a shrinking startup no longer needs to recruit, I administered the layoff as my last act and was laid off, in turn, the next day. AdvertisementThese days, we are seeing tons of layoffs, and good leaders need to be skilled at all parts of the layoff process for the sake of their team members and themselves. Most long-term leaders will go through several cycles of layoffs in their careers, and the best leaders recognize that layoffs are relatively common. I have made the call to lay off employees, and I have been laid off myself.
Persons: Goldman Sachs, Ethan Evans Organizations: Operations, Amazon
☆ 'Oh Amazon, why are you making this issue so difficult?' Employees who can't commute to their assigned offices fear the consequences.
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
Change in remote statusSome Amazon employees hired during the pandemic said they were promised permanent remote work, through what they saw as a "handshake agreement." One employee shared their vice president's email in the Slack channel, saying this manager was willing to be more flexible. People walk into the lobby of Amazon offices in New York. Over 30,000 Amazon employees joined an internal Slack channel shortly after the RTO announcement and signed a petition to demand a reversal of the mandate. "Amazon, oh Amazon, why are you making this issue so difficult?"
☆ Amazon's rush to bring employees back to office stirs anxiety over badge tracking, relocation, and impact on performance reviews
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
this person asked in the Slack channel called "remote-advocacy," according to a screenshot seen by Insider. Change in remote statusSome Amazon employees hired during the pandemic said they were promised permanent remote work, through what they saw as a "handshake agreement." One employee shared their vice president's email in the Slack channel, saying this manager was willing to be more flexible. People walk into the lobby of Amazon offices in New York. Over 30,000 Amazon employees joined an internal Slack channel shortly after the RTO announcement and signed a petition to demand a reversal of the mandate.
☆ An Amazon manager told staff to collect donations if they wanted to keep buying cereal for their office
  + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
In one instance, an Amazon manager took away free cereals to save money, a former employee said. The episode is one of many stories recently shared among ex-Amazon staff, who now work at Google. You are free to solicit donations to try and keep it running,'" this person said in an internal email thread seen by Insider. The incident is one of several signs of Amazon frugality going overboard, according to former Amazon employees who now work at Google. The stories were shared through an internal Google email thread in recent weeks, as Insider previously reported.
☆ Google employees who used to work at Amazon complain to each other just how 'frugal' their former employer was: No second monitors, no MacBooks, and splitting one bagel between two people at office me
  + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Britney Nguyen | Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Over two dozen former Amazon employees at Google started an internal email thread about Amazon. In one email, an employee who left Amazon in 2020 said his team only got one computer monitor. Amazon employees having to ask for higher quality work devices became an example of the term "frupidity," which is spreading throughout Amazon's offices. To get a second monitor, Amazon employees would hire summer interns who would get a monitor, then take them after the intern left. The email thread is followed by over 2,000 people, and is meant to connect former Amazonians who are now Googlers.
☆ A bunch of Googlers who used to work at Amazon are internally sharing horror stories about their former employer's 'frupid' and aggressive culture
  + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Googlers who used to work at Amazon are sharing how much they hated being at the e-commerce giant. Amazon is a very kill-or-be-killed environment," one of the people on the email thread told Insider. By default, product managers received subpar Windows laptops and weren't eligible for Apple devices, this person wrote. "Pretty frupid to save $200 on something that could increase the productivity of an engineer you were paying six figures to," this person wrote. "I tend to like everything about Amazon culture better than Google except one thing: how the employees are treated ;)," another person wrote.
☆ After 28 years, 'Day 2' finally arrives at Amazon
  + stars: | 2022-08-24 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Amazon is known for "Day 1" culture, maintaining a nimble mindset found on a startup's first day. This is a big challenge facing Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who replaced founder Jeff Bezos last year. On May 26, Amazon retail CEO Dave Clark held a fireside chat with employees at an internal event called Fishbowl. But 28 years on, Day 2 has finally arrived, according to more than a dozen current and former Amazon employees who cited problems including a stodgy engineering culture, extra management layers, and rising red tape. "Historically Amazon was one of the best places for builders, but now when people want to build, they leave Amazon," this person said.
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