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>>claude+(OP)
A few months ago I was in the job market and got a call from a recruiter at Amazon. I flatly told them that I wasn't interested in working for Amazon on ethical grounds.

At the time it was purely out of principle, but apparently it was a good decision for my self-interest as well.

I wonder how long they can keep this stuff up before they start seriously damaging their desirability as a workplace, the way Facebook has?

>>_bxg1+aB
I quit Amazon last year on ethical grounds. I stayed for 3years. After year 1 I was miserable but stayed because tech interviews are something awful (what a crazy sentence to even write).

The thing is, as long as you're on dat kooliad diet it's easy to look past all of Amazon's transgressions and unlawful, unethical, behavior because it's happening somewhere else so it's easy to rationalize why Amazon would act the way they did. Most employees that I worked with cared about one thing, the money, and the stock is hitting ATHs in a global pandemic.

So how long can they keep it up? Pretty damn long and I don't expect anything to change unfortunately.

PS, Remember, it isn't a faceless corporation, it's full of HN readers