The post, by former Amazon worker Stephanie Ramos, criticised bureaucracy at the company. "Instead of the exciting, fast-paced environment I remember, I experienced a place bogged down in pointless meetings and middling middle managers," wrote Ramos, explaining why she quit her job less than three months after being rehired by Amazon.
Ramos posted her thoughts Monday afternoon. By the end of the week, more than 100 000 people had viewed it, she said in an interview. Of the more than 200 people who commented on her post, about 20 are currently employed by Amazon in various departments around the world - and many were critical of the company.
Some lambasted Amazon's direction under Andy Jassy, who assumed the CEO role from co-founder Jeff Bezos three years ago. "Love him or hate him, Bezos had courage and a vision - he had real all-hands meetings that weren't pre-recorded with hard questions," wrote Todd Leonhardt, whose LinkedIn profile describes him as an Amazon Web Services software developer in Virginia.
Another person, Laura Barry, whose LinkedIn profile says she's worked at Amazon for nearly 20 years, wrote that the company today reminded her of a bank. She pointed to the new policy of requiring workers to be in the office five days a week.
"I'm waiting for a dress code to be implemented after 5 days a week starts," she commented on the post. "Hide those tattoos!"
