Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.
Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift.
The headline is novel, but the complaint that Amazon’s habit of stack-ranking staff has turned the corporate office into an endless, chronically stressful rat-race is nothing new.
From what I’ve heard of a few folks who worked there, the only two savvy moves when working at Amazon are to find a job where the work is so basic and routine that you’ll never miss your quotas and can’t possibly fail or be so ruthlessly ambitious that you climb over the backs of every manager above you until you can make the leap to a close-knit “independent contractor” who facilitates Amazon from the outside at above-Amazon payscale.
But the corporate ladder at Amazon is a lie. It’s just a meat-grinder. Unless you can find a place where the stack-ranking system can’t get you, the entire company is up-or-out from your first day on the job to your last.