Amazon is bringing back their office employees as the default operating mode; citing inefficiencies in the creative process.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/amazon-expects-some-employee...
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/amazon-expects-some-employee...
With all of the horror stories about their warehouses I have to imagine the offices aren't great either. Like I would expect them to be as miserable as Amazon leadership thinks it can get away with.
There's the fairly normal things like charging for lunch at the office canteen (fine, but for a big tech company this is a little different), the slightly odd things like charging for parking at their office (seems like an easy win to not bother?), and then there's the downright crappy ("your role entitles you to 4GB RAM in your laptop, even though Excel needs much more, if you want more buy it yourself").
I think there are better companies to use as role models for creating a good working environment.
While they may have been great at some point, they're largely carried by a few segments of their businesses and can no longer really fail. Google is mostly carried by their success in ads, and most of the non-ads things they pump out + the way they do it, is mediocre at best, extremely inefficient at worse. Their technological innovations are mostly meant to support these inefficiencies. Sure some stuff they do is cool, but they do a LOT of stuff. Most isn't. The same applies to all these other companies.
You'd think that the world's larges cloud provider, would have the tooling and policies in place to deal with this issue (creative inefficiencies). Because that's literally what they're asking their customers to deal with when they sign on to the concept of cloud-computing.