I didn't need any more reasons to avoid working at Amazon. Their work culture is famously toxic and their way of back-weighting the vesting schedule is perfectly constructed to make people endure abuse in the workplace. But this kind of attitude toward remote work really seals the deal. Truly an F-tier workplace.
>back-weighting the vesting schedule is perfectly constructed to make people endure abuse in the workplace.
Amazon's work culture is toxic in a lot of ways and this RTO is idiotic, but saying this about the vesting schedule just shows that you don't actually have any idea how the Amazon compensation structure actually works. There's a lot of reasons to not want to work at Amazon, but the vesting backweighting isn't one of them.
I got an offer from them (in the Alexa/hardware group - UK), but the place looked like a cult - with all their mantras to learn for interview and stuff. I mastered it for interview and just told them some nonsense rubbish. Still went on the other phases and got an offer.
After all steps, somehow I felt $ would be life changing. It wasn’t, so I did the right thing and didn’t leave the current place to go there.
