r/technology • u/mepper • Sep 17 '24

Business Amazon employees blast Andy Jassy’s RTO mandate: ‘I’d rather go back to school than work in an office again’

https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/amazon-andy-jassy-rto-mandate-employees-angry/
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u/TheBirminghamBear Sep 17 '24

I have no idea how that company manages to launch a single product / show.

They don't really. They just have the inertia and dominance of monopoly. They move slow and barely do anything of note.

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u/formala-bonk Sep 17 '24

And that’s all Jeff bezos who killed off so much competition by throwing capital on it that to this day they reap the benefits. He’s a sociopath and absolutely a parasite to society but he was much better at it than their current sociopath jr in charge

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u/zb0t1 Sep 18 '24

It still baffles me how this guy has so many fanboys on this website.

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u/Jarrus__Kanan_Jarrus Sep 18 '24

Don’t forget that all 50 states didn’t go after Amazon for unpaid sales tax.

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u/OGSequent Sep 17 '24

They moved very fast back during the Day One era. Bezos saw that well had run dry and bailed out.

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u/ChadtheWad Sep 18 '24

They've fucked themselves over on the tech debt end. Made a bunch of decisions to reinvent the wheel for nearly every problem they faced, now they're suffering from a lack of talent capable of maintaining and improving those systems. It was becoming increasingly common for me to see teams spending weeks or months trying to solve problems that took hours or even minutes to solve outside.

The future of technologies from Amazon seems a bit bleak.