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To me, a more fair comparison would be how Amazon requires all office workers to shadow a customer support representative for one week out of each year.

I don't think the OP's suggestion does anything close to reinventing the concept of a worker cooperative.




Amazon really is not a good example of a successful employee management. Their attrition is horrible, worst work life balance culture out of FAANGs, their reputation is horrible and working there is most disliked. They cast a wide net, but lose employees fast.


Have you worked there? I have quite a different experience than this.

I found Amazon's hiring practices and employee management to be very effective compared to other places I've worked. In general, I found their whole dogma really worked in practice, which surprised me at first.


I have not worked there. It is what I hear from other people's experience. Of course it will vary between teams, but the reputation is still low and attrition rate very high.


That is definitely not a thing that Amazon does.


I worked at Amazon for six years and did this four times - one for each promotion I received at the company.




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