They pay more than average for pretty bad working condition
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baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Why would anyone ever work there. Every time I have gotten hit up by their recruiters, I kindly tell them that I could never work for a place so hostile to employees.
evol@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
[deleted]kcuf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Amazon has never been like that, Google has had more perks like that in the past, but Amazon has always been much more frugal.
unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
[deleted]kcuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Every manager can expense what they want if they can get their manager to support it, so some offices (or more realistically, some teams in some offices) have nicer perks than others, but GREF doesn’t provide anything for free. If she was getting free food, that was her management chain doing that, not amazon as a whole (unlike say Google or meta that has free cafeterias, I’ve never seen a cafeteria in Amazon with free food).
titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Because they pay well and most of the corporate side has good benefits and perks.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
good benefits and perks.
Didn’t they literally just introduce free coffee at the office post-pandemic?
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Not to say that I would willingly choose to work at Amazon, but I do know the reason. It’s documented here: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-engineer
Zetta@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Better benefits and pay than most other options in a lot of areas, especially warehouse workers in smaller towns.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s the only way they can keep bringing in people while forcing them to pee in cups. It is one of those last choice desperation jobs.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The majority of their employees are in warehouses. They have more than 1 million employees. Most people don’t have options, even white collar workers are outmatched in the employment relationship when they depend on income to survive month to month. Few are those who have the relativve luxury of employer political alignmnet.
People can barely feed themselves. The federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in 19 fucking years. Think about the implications of that in a high inflation environment. That is work for no pay essentially.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Trust me, I understand my privilege. I don’t begrudge anyone working there because they have to. In the tech (read:coding) industry, where there are more options (though fewer these days), I don’t understand putting themselves into the meat grinder if they don’t have to.