[eranation]

I just joined AWS ProServ and I really don't see any of these things. Pretty amazing team and one of the best work life balance I've seen in a tech company so far. I have 4 other friends who work at AWS and all seem very happy so far. I found the glass door comment and it seems to be from an engineering manager. I have a friend who manages one of the AWS products and he seems to be pretty happy.

I just joined so I really am not a statistically significant case but so far it's no where near what was in that NYT article.

Edit: I can't read apparently :) thanks heuving for clarifying and the commenter for reformatting

[inopinatus]

I suspect an inverse survivorship bias in the public representation of the company by ex-employees. Those of us with positive recollections tend to say very little, and (in my case at least) that's due to respect for Amazon's culture.

[jsolson]

Eh, I had a pretty good ride there myself. I believe every incident in that NY Times article happened.

If you were at Amazon for any length of time and didn't notice the existence of toxic teams and the random chance element of being hired into one of them, you weren't paying attention.

[eclipxe]

Concur

[hueving]

The GP pulled that from glassdoor.