What It's Like To Work At Amazon

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In a word, brutal.

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace


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The article is long, but very interesting.
 


“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”

Someday, I'll be Amazon.

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Am I supposed to feel something for people who stay in jobs which make them cry?

That's about the same as the battered wife who keeps claiming 'this time he is changed'
 
GoldMarketing said:
That's because they have been heavily re-investing all this time.
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I'm aware. I'm pointing out that they're profitable now since it's relatively new news (and unexpected by most), and it tends to be the #1 thing people jump on anytime something involving Amazon comes up in conversation.

Industrypariah said:
What a surprise that this would go over the stupid hustler's head. Derp.
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Really?
 
They're terrible to work for. They dangle decent money in your face but they have a high turnover. Fresh out of school they start you at $120k/year, and they own you, scream at you, and will come to your house at 4am if you don't answer your phone.
 
shindig said:
They're terrible to work for. They dangle decent money in your face but they have a high turnover. Fresh out of school they start you at $120k/year, and they own you, scream at you, and will come to your house at 4am if you don't answer your phone.
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Not even worth it - the long term damage to your health would easily be more than $120K worth.
 
shindig said:
They're terrible to work for. They dangle decent money in your face but they have a high turnover. Fresh out of school they start you at $120k/year, and they own you, scream at you, and will come to your house at 4am if you don't answer your phone.
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Amazon pay is substandard. When I graduated in 2012 they weren't offering close to 120k. Other companies were though :)
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlFNz5JIV7s[/ame]
jet going to charge $50 annual fee, and they raised 225 million funding so far. even if they had a million subs that's still about a 5 year ROI. maybe i'm ignorant to how funding works but, how the hell so many people always getting crazy funding for their unoriginal business ideas? like that lady's home security company?
 
JakeStratham said:
Originality is overrated.

And expensive.

It's safer to bet on an idea with a proven track record.
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that's true. for example sms headphones vs beats headphones, or even google and facebook. But i can understand that since the market was open for competition. What i can't understand, for example, is how all these muther fuckers be getting like millions of dollars on kickstarter for their stupid 3d printers when there is already hundreds of them on ebay that do the same thing :confused:
+1mil
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1650950769/rigidbot-3d-printer/description
~1.5mil
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...d-printer-that-everyone-can-use?ref=discovery
~3mil
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ordable-professional-3d-printer?ref=discovery
~375k
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cobblebot/cobblebot-3d-printer?ref=nav_search

3d printer | eBay

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search...ct_en&CatId=&SearchText=3d+printer&country=US
 
BossDonLapre said:
What i can't understand, for example, is how all these muther fuckers be getting like millions of dollars on kickstarter for their stupid 3d printers
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ok, now that i think about it, i guess these kickstarter projects are more like pre-orders for the product rather than investor funding...... but still it's only a matter of time before i read about some company raising millions for another goddamn smart watch/wrist band bullshit
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WP6BTTaXwY[/ame]
 
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