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This is why it's important to shame Amazon and other workplaces with ludicrous cultures that damage their tech employees mental health.

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Ex-Amazons are valued in Silicon Valley explicitly for the hard edge that being socialized there is supposed to have imparted.

I'm not in the valley, but honestly I discard all resumes from former Amazon employees. If the tenure is shorter than 1 year I may take a look, just in case.

As a manager there is no way I'm contaminating my team with Amazon's culture. And yeah yeah "not all former Amazon blabla". Sure, I dont have time to play the odds. We all know about Amazon's toxic culture.

Is shaming did anything that would be true. But it doesn't.

What we need is actual action politically.

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