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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amazon had always been the place for people who can't get jobs somewhere else. Lowest paying, lowest benefit, most abusive management in Big Tech.

They thrive on desperate people (mostly immigrant new grads) who are willing to overwork themselves until they find something better or get laid off.

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Not necessarily true. Husband made the jump from another FAANG I think during pandemic when hiring was going crazy and got a big bump in salary after getting passed over for the usual politics.  Not because he was a bad performer. He was not.

He’s still making quite a lot more than he was making at his previous FAANG company, which is supposed to treat their employees amazingly but actually was a dysfunctional sshow.

Honestly, they are all kind of evil, but those golden handcuffs! It makes it hard to go to other places. He’s worked at a few. I’d say Microsoft was the nicest and chillest but paid the least. Amazon seems to be the roughest in terms of office politics.

I remind him, and he knows, that he makes way more than most people, and that is a combination of talent and ambition and luck. Amazon is evil but he still is getting paid a lot of money and his work life balance is not bad, as some people here are saying. 
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op would YOU want to go into the office 5 days a week?
if it were me and this happened to dh i'd encourage him to find a new job. He has one life to live, be supportive. [/quote]

I DON'T want that. He has been looking for the last year and a half. He's not in his 20s and makes a lot of money. It's never been like this before. He used to get offers all the time. I mean, it's a bit like the world's smallest violin. He makes a lot of money compared to 99% of the population, but the only places he can really keep making that kind of money is at other FAANGs, and they are just not hiring for people at his level. He could get a programming job tomorrow, but with a 50% pay cut. He's also ambitious and wants to level up--no vertical moves because he's done that before and then you're just starting over. It's a game.

At his level, promotions seem to be almost entirely political and done for reasons that make no logical sense. They will bring someone in from a totally different city who knows nothing about the team because they're supposed to be a "rock star" based on....I don't know? Gossip? What some other director says who someone play golf with? This is not just Amazon. It's all of them. And then the person is okay if you're lucky. I'm just a bystander, but I can say my husband is good at what he does. It doesn't seem to be based on actual performance. They are all kind of evil. Amazon is just more evil right now. [/quote]

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