Amazon's "Darwinism" culture forced him to commit suicide-IT information
A new entry United States Amazon Chinese technical staff, because his company suffered "injustice", and recently from the company's headquarters is located in Seattle's jump off a 12-story office building, was seriously injured. According to the employee's friend in North American Chinese Web site "an acre of three" message, this employee is recuperating at a local hospital, there is no life danger.
Amazon employees are familiar with the situation confirmed to PingWest that.
The employee before the jump sent an internal message to hundreds of employees, accusing their being subjected to unfair treatment, the recipients including Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
To PingWest an undisclosed Amazon employee said staff concerned on July 11 this year to join the profession, Hardline in the Amazon Business Business Group (responsible for consumer electronics, sports, cars, household goods, tools, toys, and). His immediate superior, a Jordan national software development manager thinks his performance problems and threatening his colleagues to give him "bad review" (peer score bad reviews).
But sources also pointed out that the employees from entry to three months now than lines of code, the numbers have no reason to question the performance of low. One source to show PingWest play records of the employees involved in the internal code base, showing there is frequently a lot of code and modify submitted.
The collection manager of your employees ' evidence for Amazon HR departments, HR later promised to give his group is removed from the sector. Managers learned of the news, to put pressure on him, to give him a three-month "PIP". PIP is a performance tool for Amazon, known as Performance Improvement Plan, performance improvement plan.
In theory, the PIP is because the Poor Performance of their staff, managers, and you make a plan and see if I can improve, you need to do step by step in accordance with this plan, improvement has been to meet the requirement. Although it sounds like an encouraging performance mechanism for staff to redouble their efforts, but PIP in the Amazon is not the case – employees without the accident into the PIP will be fired by the company, precursor to leave.
Amazon employee familiar with the situation pointed out that, if the new employees in the transfer group within six months, the Manager of the group, not only in the internal human resources before scoring 0 points, also lost that year's bonus in full.
The employees jump off the Amazon Apollo building, located in downtown Seattle, from the iconic Space Needle just 1 mile
PingWest has not received this facility staff by internal mail. According to read mail of other Amazon-Chinese staff assessment, the content of the letter, "wrote the true meaning."
Last year, an article in the New York Times investigation of Amazon's enterprise culture report a concern, it disclosed within Amazon's little-known "sweatshop". Points out that Amazon has a "deliberate Darwinism": too much emphasis on survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest, but did not come after colleagues urged the effect, but simply make them feel ashamed.
In the Amazon, bad employees or turnover, or PIP was dismissed after, well depends on immediate superior "King James". Article interviewing more than 100 former employees and current employees of the Amazon, most of the respondents think that the Amazon staff impersonal. Sources pointed out that working in the Amazon, low barriers to entry, a high rate of turnover, on call (technical problems with the Web site, feel free to work overtime to repair). Many employees find the Amazon culture at the erosion of their work and life balance, and let them "whip" their own inadequacies, company is a behemoth that can hardly be satisfied.
In order to combat the unhealthy culture, Amazon's former employees and current employees make up the "FACE of Amazon" (Former And Current Employee of Amazon), inside and outside the Amazon employees are filing "abuse". Recently, the Seattle Times reported that in the Organization's promotion, Amazon is considering to overthrow the existing performance appraisal system, pay close attention from "performance comparison of employees and other employees", transferred to the employee's accomplishments.
On this matter, Amazon employees differently, the main two, attacked Manager Standard Chartered and the other employees involved are considered low quality and jumping off a building is extreme, "Seattle no sun, the less vitamin d, likely to be depressed. "An Amazon employee said.
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亚马逊的“达尔文主义”文化逼他跳楼自杀 - IT资讯
一名刚入职美国亚马逊的华裔技术员工，因为自己在公司内部遭受“不公正待遇”，近日从该公司总部位于西雅图市区的十二层办公楼上跳下，身受重伤。据该员工的朋友在北美华人网站“一亩三分地”的留言，该员工目前在当地医院休养，目前没有生命危险。
了解情况的亚马逊员工也向PingWest品玩确认了这个消息。
该员工在跳楼之前给数百名员工发出了一封内部邮件，控诉自己遭受的不公待遇，收件人包括亚马逊创始人兼 CEO杰夫·贝佐斯。
一名不愿透露身份的亚马逊员工向PingWest品玩表示，涉事员工今年7月11日入职，在亚马逊Hardline Business事业组（负责消费电子、运动、汽车、家居、工具和玩具等商品）工作。他的直属上司，一名约旦籍软件开发经理认为他的绩效有问题，并且威胁他的同事给他“bad review”（同事相互评分打差评）。
但消息源同时也指出，该名员工从入职到现在三个月提交的代码已经超过万行，从数字上来讲没有理由被质疑绩效低。一位消息源向PingWest品玩展示了涉事员工在内部代码库的记录，显示有经常性的大量代码和修改提交。
该员工收集了经理非待自己的证据给亚马逊HR部门，后来HR答应给他转组即调离该部门。经理得知这一消息，向他施加压力，要给他三个月“PIP”。PIP是亚马逊的一种绩效工具，全称为Performance Improvement Plan，即绩效改进计划。
理论上，PIP是因为员工的工作表现太差，经理和你制定一个计划，看看能否有所改进，你需要按照这个计划一步步做下去，改进提高一直到达到要求。虽然听上去是一种勉励绩效低的员工加倍努力的机制，但PIP在亚马逊却并非如此——进入PIP的员工如无意外都会被公司解雇，基本等于走人的前兆。
熟悉情况的亚马逊员工指出，如果新员工在半年之内转组，之前所在组的经理不仅在内部的人力资源评分上会得0分，还会损失当年的全额奖金。
该名员工跳下的Amazon Apollo大楼，位于西雅图市中心，距离标志建筑Space Needle仅1英里
PingWest品玩尚未获得这名设施员工发出的内部邮件。据看过邮件的其他亚马逊华裔员工评价，信的内容“写的真心内涵”。
去年，一篇《纽约时报》针对亚马逊企业文化的深度调查报道备受关注，它披露了亚马逊内不为人知的“血汗工厂”。文章指出，亚马逊有一种“故意的达尔文主义”：过分强调适者生存和优胜劣汰，却并没有对后进的同事产生督促效果，而是单纯地让他们感到羞耻。
在亚马逊，表现不好的员工要么主动离职，要么PIP后被开除，而表现好不好全看直接上司的“钦定”。文章采访了超过100名亚马逊前员工和现员工，大部分受访者认为亚马逊对员工没有人情味。有知情人士指出，在亚马逊工作，进入门槛低，流动率大，on call（网站出现技术问题，随时加班修复）极多。很多员工觉得亚马逊的公司文化在侵蚀他们工作和生活的平衡，让他们“鞭笞”自己的不足，公司就像是一头难以被满足的巨兽。
为了对抗这种不健康的文化，亚马逊的前员工和现员工组成了“FACE of Amazon”(Former And Current Employee of Amazon)组织，整理所有亚马逊内外员工受到的“虐待”。最近《西雅图时报》报道称，在该组织的推动下，亚马逊正在考虑推翻现行的绩效考评制度，把关注点从“员工和其他员工的绩效对比”，转移到员工的确实成就上。
关于此事，亚马逊员工评价不一，主要的两种评价，一种抨击经理人渣，另一种则认为涉事员工心理素质太差，跳楼的做法太极端，“西雅图没太阳，少维生素D，容易抑郁。”一名亚马逊员工说。
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