Sadistic work environment
Sadistic work environment
Challenging, weekly principal talks are interesting. Nice to be so close to the cutting edge.
My gardener makes more than I did there. If you are H1B, you will be encouraged and coddled, mistakes forgiven, mentored, welcomed. If you are not, good luck, you'll need it (mistakes collected and eagerly searched for, used against you, you cannot win).
They have a system where the managers sit at their terminal and watch everything you do. Whatever you are doing on the computers there, the managers are watching, literally. All departments do this.
Also, many teams have the desks configured so you are literally staring at each other while working. It's very, very, very hard to concentrate there. Meanwhile, they are gathering up any and all mistakes, real and imagined, so they can get rid of you and hire an H1B instead.
It is a sadistic workplace; it truly is. They are more interested in messing with your head than getting any real work done.
Consider American workers who are out of work instead of punting all jobs to H1-B people.
Encourage people to adapt and learn, train them and encourage them to stay.
Amazon burns people out and drives them away and seems to pride themselves on this.
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