{"id":946259,"date":"2025-07-14T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946259"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:44:33","slug":"longtime-amazon-employee-criticises-tech-giants-work-culture-in-retirement-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/14\/longtime-amazon-employee-criticises-tech-giants-work-culture-in-retirement-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Amazon employee criticises tech giant&#8217;s work culture in retirement reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a critical account shared upon retirement, a longtime Amazon employee who worked at the tech giant for 12 years, criticised the company&#8217;s work culture and recent firing spree. In a post on social media, the employee, who joined in 2012, said the company has shifted from its famed &#8220;Day 1&#8221; philosophy to what they now call a &#8220;Day 2&#8221; mentality. <\/p>\n<p>Day 1 is a mindset and operating model coined by founder Jeff Bezos, which focusses on maintaining the energy, agility, and customer obsession of a startup, no matter the company&#8217;s size or age. The idea is to act as if it is the first day of the company, to avoid stagnation and lack of passion, which Bezos calls &#8220;Day 2&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a critical account shared upon retirement, a longtime Amazon employee who worked at the tech giant for 12 years, criticised the company&#8217;s work culture and recent firing spree. In a post on social media, the employee, who joined in 2012, said the company has shifted from its famed &#8220;Day 1&#8221; philosophy to what they now call a &#8220;Day 2&#8221; mentality. Day 1 is a mindset and operating model coined by founder Jeff Bezos, which focusses on maintaining the energy, agility, and customer obsession of a startup, no matter the company&#8217;s size or age. The idea is to act as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}