[moron4hire]

There is always someone coming into the thread to say "that's not been my experience". Frankly, the company is so large, how could you know? When you get a situation like the article describes, you could be sitting a desk over from the guy and still never know. I've seen dozens of stories just like this of toxic behavior at Amazon. It makes it sound like they have their flagship projects that they use to attract developers and a long tail of drudge work they need to attrit through developers to get done.

[crossroadsguy]

When someone says this about companies like Amazon or Uber I immediately find it suspicious (Shills? Apologists? Or people from PR/HR?) because people at these two companies I know personally have nothing but horror stories. As in - that is the general sentiment I get.

There’s another aspect I always get - they knew what they were getting into or it became clear pretty quick and they went in or continued just for the money.

What never gets mentioned is “best and brightest” minds rhetoric that I see in posts and comments online. They say it’s so fast paced, toxic, burn outs causing the revolving door of attrition to move constantly that there’s no time to meaningfully do this “interacting with those proverbial super minds”

[nikau]

Having worked in large fortune 500 companies they can be totally different experiences depending on the department and particularly the country you work in.

For example a US company will be different to work at if you are in an office in a country with strong labour laws.