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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Outside of warehouse work, there is little doubt many white collar jobs with Amazon are over $100k/year. Even have a cursory look at the Indeed website for Amazon Canada roles, most are over $100k (at least the ones listed).
Sounds like the work culture is ruthless and tiring though.
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Yes, I've heard the corporate work culture at Amazon is a machine that will grind you and grind you as Amazon experiments with how to get more out of its workers. Count me out as wanting to work there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/t...workplace.html
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Originally Posted by NYTimes
At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered), and held to standards that the company boasts are “unreasonably high.” The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others. (The tool offers sample texts, including this: “I felt concerned about his inflexibility and openly complaining about minor tasks.”)
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enduring image was watching people weep in the office, a sight other workers described as well. “You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face,” he said. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
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