Wow congrats on making $300K doing nothing!
I realized this is very much the culture in Amazon now. Because they’re the top paying tech company it attracts people who work for money and nothing more. That creates…a certain culture.
I realized this is very much the culture in Amazon now. Because they’re the top paying tech company it attracts people who work for money and nothing more. That creates…a certain culture.
Are you suggesting that because the pay is high the culture of Amazon is bad ?
Why is working for money a bad thing ? Everyone is selling their time in exchange for money.
The primary reason for Amazon's bad culture is the management, and their insistance on firing 6% of workers each year[1]. This creates a culture where the people who understand this system well will actively sabotage newbies and naive devs to avoid getting canned.
A lucky few with good VPs and directors may have a good experience overall, but at some point the Amazon culture catches up to everyone, except the executives who don't face the same pressures.
[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-performance-review-6-...
People change over time, someone might have a family, they might encounter a medical situation, they may have student loan debt. There are millions of scenarios which could cause a person to choose working for a pay bump.
My point is none of these reasons will sour the culture as much as management putting employees through a zero sum, hunger games like scenario.
At the end of the day all of this stems Bezos's belief that employees are all inherently lazy, this trickles down to all the executives.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-polices-based-jeff-be...
Edit: correction it was two hours per WEEK.
Working 2 hours a day for a fat paycheck sounds like a better way to enable yourself to spend time on your passions than deluding yourself into the belief that the capitalist entity extracting multiples of your TC as value for itself is enabling you to "follow your passion" while you work
Also, many of people actually like their jobs. But a lot of developer jobs especially at big companies are fundamentally boring hence the unstoppable chase of higher TC and the desperate need for hobbies.
Sure, sometimes people lose the plot, what does it have to do with passion?
> many of people actually like their jobs
This is blatantly false. Many people have jobs that are occasionally interesting, I would accept this, but no one "likes" working. In what world is giving all your energy to corporate interests to enrich the top of the corporation something to like?
> But a lot of developer jobs especially at big companies are fundamentally boring hence the unstoppable chase of higher TC and the desperate need for hobbies.
Jesus christ, "the desperate need for hobbies", what is wrong with you? You pan people who don't like working, and criticize them for wanting to have hobbies instead of spending all their time doing activities that are only a value-add to their boss's boss? No wonder you are jealous of people who get paid well and have fun in their free time, you have the worst case of Capitalist Stockholm Syndrome I've ever seen
By all accounts, it already has.
Thats most (big) tech companies
but they exact a huge "tax" on items sold on the site, so they can survive incompetence for quite some time.
Every person I know who earns well "working" for 2 to ten hours a week spends a good fraction of their "free" time doing things that make those hours hyper productive.
It could be as direct as a developer working on software side projects. More often, it's tangential. Working on demanding problems. Comfort with the unfamiliar. Mind you, none of this is done for that purpose. But when you watch someone who couldn't keep their office plants alive for ten minutes noodle, for a week, through designing and building a smart irrigation and remote soil chemistry monitoring system for a backyard pot farm, it makes sense why, when they look at a problem in a domain they're experts in, decades of parameter space can be searched and resolved in seconds.
Do you think this is less prevalent at lower labor prices?