> You underestimate how sclerotic large corporations can be. I've seen people do zero work (...)

This is the very first time I saw anyone with a straight face talking about Amazon workers and mentioning "people do zero work, quite visible".

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scottLobster 13 hours ago | parent [-]

To be fair I've never worked at Amazon, but at this point they have 1.6 million employees worldwide. I don't care what their hiring brochures say, if you think they don't suffer the same ailments as every corporation that size I have a bridge to sell you.

Certain sectors are high performing centers of excellence whose staff write blog posts that get posted to HN, publish papers, get put on the covers of hiring media and give speeches. The majority of the company is somewhere in the middle holding down their relatively uneventful but important functions, and probably a larger chunk than Corporate leadership would like to acknowledge are deadweight hiding in the cracks.

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Apocryphon 13 hours ago | parent [-]

The comment was likely less about positive corporate spin, more about rumors of Amazon's allegedly grueling, PIP-centered culture.

	▲	scottLobster 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, if that culture is actually widespread I imagine their deadweight is more the variety that's figured out how to game the system or has connections, rather than the "I'm going to do literally no work and watch youtube all day" varieties that I've witnessed.