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New York Times article on the culture within Amazon

Posted on August 17, 2015August 17, 2015 by Nkozi Knight

New York Times Article: Inside Amazon

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html

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Amazon is a huge, very successful company that can make headlines with products and services years away from reality. It?s also good at selling you stuff you want really cheaply and delivering it to you super quick. According to a New York Timesreport, however, the incredible efficiency and continuing expansion comes at the cost of its workers, held to ?unreasonably high? standards and demands. The NYT talked to over 100 current and former Amazon workers, across senior management, as well as workers in retail, engineering, HR and marketing. Some nightmare tales outline about how employees caring for relatives or battling cancer soon faced harsh feedback from colleagues and superiors. ?What kind of company do we want to be?? said one former human resources exec to her bosses, after she was told to put a woman who had recently returned from serious surgery, and another who had just…

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