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☆ 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.

☆ $15 billion delivery startup Gopuff tried to rip out a page from Amazon's playbook by poaching its managers. Insiders say a newfound metrics obsession 'destroyed' its operations.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-06 | by ( Tom Dotan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Gopuff warehouse managers knew times had changed the moment their corporate bosses started needling them about employee bathroom breaks. These kinds of questions have become a regular occurrence, according to seven current and former Gopuff employees. Insider talked to a dozen current and former Gopuff employees at both corporate and regional levels. At that meeting, he said he wanted to level up the talent of the company's warehouse managers, two former employees said. Another former Gopuff manager said the company's Amazon hires seemed to take little interest in learning how Gopuff had been doing things previously.

☆ 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.

☆ Performance evaluations at Amazon are so predatory and opaque, they drove me to quit. Here's how I navigated the worst weeks of my career.
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-20 | by ( Patrick Mcgah | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The system is so opaque it took reporters from The Seattle Times and Insider for actual Amazon employees to find out what it entails. The first rule of Focus is: You do not talk about FocusIn February, after my team's performance evaluations, my manager told me I'd been rated as a low performer. He told me the company policy is not to inform employees they are on Focus unless they ask directly. My manager didn't agree with the decision, but the director of engineering had the final say. A spokesperson for Amazon said the company regularly reviews performance ratings and other people processes to ensure they are fair and effective.

☆ Andy Jassy officially starts as Amazon CEO today. Insiders describe his 'CHOP' meetings, micromanagement, and 'Nice' emails.
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( Eugene Kim | Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

On July 5, Andy Jassy officially became Amazon CEO, succeeding Jeff Bezos, who steps into the position of executive chairman. When Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has a big decision to make, it usually comes at the Chop. "If you go to a Chop meeting with Andy, you better be ready," one former senior-level employee told Insider. Though he's one of the longest-serving executives at Amazon and a close confidant of CEO Jeff Bezos, Jassy still remains relatively little-known outside tech circles. Early on in the pandemic, Jassy told AWS employees that "the world is relying on Amazon," according to an email seen by Insider.

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☆ Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon's CEO later this year and be replaced by AWS CEO Andy Jassy
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-02 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO in the third quarter of 2021. Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, will replace him. AdvertisementAdvertisementAndy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, will replace him. The cloud CEO helped build AWS into a massive unit that generates over $40 billion in annual revenue. AdvertisementAdvertisementAre you an Amazon Web Services employee?

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☆ Amazon has reportedly been spying on workers' private Facebook groups and tracking their plans to 'strike or protest'
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-02 | by ( Tyler Sonnemaker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On Tuesday, Vice reported that Amazon had been monitoring dozens of private and public social-media groups operated by Amazon Flex drivers across the US, the UK, and Spain. The tool monitors conversations taking place across various platforms, including in private Facebook groups, subreddits about driving for Amazon Flex, and tweets containing the keyword "Amazon Flex," Vice reported. On a login screen for the tool, according to Vice, Amazon described the contents as "classified," adding: "DO NOT SHARE without proper authentication. Amazon employees held a protest and a walkout over conditions at the company's Staten Island distribution facility on March 30 in New York City. But as Amazon workers have become more unified in speaking out about their treatment, the company has responded by becoming increasingly hostile to their efforts to organize.

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☆ Tech CEO on Silicon Valley: 'They're obsessed with all the things that I think are bad business'
▼ + stars: | 2017-09-05 | by ( Libkane | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

In an interview with Adam Bryant of The New York Times, Fried told Bryant that he's mystified by some of the attitudes found in the tech world. But a lot of the tech world is obsessed with growth and revenue and not profit. They're obsessed with ego. They're obsessed with all the things that I think are bad business." AdvertisementApparently, this type of anecdote isn't unusual in the tech world — and it paints a picture of an intense work culture that could easily lead to burnout.

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