Amazon's Vice President of Technology Resigns in Anger Over Toxic Company Culture

During the epidemic, Amazon workers' opinions on fighting for more protection and benefits were severely suppressed by the company. Workers who initiated petitions or protests were fired one after another. Recently, Amazon Vice President Tim Bray, dissatisfied with the company's inhumane practices, published a resignation blog post, directly pointing out that the company's corporate culture is toxic.

Amazon's Vice President of Technology Tim Bray gave up millions in salary and was dissatisfied with Amazon's suppression of employees. His resignation blog attracted the attention of the entire network.

He bluntly pointed out that Amazon threatened and fired employees who tried to defend their rights for various reasons. This also made more people begin to examine how the technology giant treats its employees during the epidemic.

At the same time, another Amazon warehouse worker died of COVID-19 a few days ago, and a total of three employees have died from the coronavirus.

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At the end of April, Tim Bray published a long blog post titled "Goodbye, Amazon," announcing that he would leave on May 1. The article discussed the reasons for his resignation and pointed out that Amazon's corporate culture was toxic.

Tim Bray, 64 years old this year, is a top software engineer. He is honored as the "Father of XML". He is the inventor of the search engine and the inventor of the online searchable Oxford English Dictionary. He was selected as one of the 100 most famous people in North America together with Bill Gates.

He graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1973 and subsequently received his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Guelph in Canada.

Since then, he has worked his way up the ranks in many technology companies, founded his own technology company, joined the Google Android team in 2010, and joined Amazon in 2014. Before leaving, he served as vice president of technology and chief engineer with a salary of over $1 million.

However, all these favorable conditions that he had worked hard for could not outweigh his desire to speak up for his employees.

Dissatisfied with the company's toxic culture, he resigned in a long post

Employees protested and were fired, and the company was furious  

The reason why Tim Bray resigned in anger was due to some of Amazon's recent mysterious behaviors towards its employees.

In March, some employees protested against Amazon's poor protection of its employees. Afterwards, Christian Smalls, the initiator of the strike, was fired by Amazon on the pretext of something.

In April, two user experience designers, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, who publicly criticized the company's labor policies, were fired on the day they launched the petition.

These events caused dissatisfaction among Tim Bray, and he organized several petitions or protests, but all of them were dismissed by the company. Finally, Tim was completely disappointed and chose to resign.

Denounced the company's toxic culture and refused to be involved  

Bray said in a blog post that Amazon's firing and devaluing of employees who organized the protests was actually "cowardly" behavior, and said that firing employees was actually creating fear.

He believes that this practice completely deviates from humanitarianism, does not value the balance of individual freedom and rights, but instead attempts to use repression to quell different voices, which is all unreasonable.

Bray also pointed out: The practice of firing whistleblowers proves that there is a "poison vein" running through the company culture, so I choose not to serve or drink this "poison".

He also pointed out in the article that this phenomenon is not unique to Amazon, but is a problem common to many large companies and even a drawback of capitalist culture.

He concluded by writing, “I’m sad, but I feel like I can breathe freer now.”

Amazon's response has yet to arrive

Amazon currently refuses to comment on this resignation letter that has attracted nationwide attention.

The interesting thing is that we previously"Bezos releases annual shareholder letter. What makes the business world's annual must-read letter different?"In an article, it was reported that the richest man, Mr. Bezos, boasted about Amazon's corporate culture in his 2020 shareholder letter not long ago.

He was defeated by his capable subordinate so quickly. I wonder if Mr. Bei will be touched.