An Amazon employee worked for a year and a half and received $555 thousand (~55 million). During this time he did nothing

You’ve probably experienced what it would be like to receive a large salary and still do nothing at work.

Looks like Amazon can make your dream come true. One of the company’s employees anonymously said that in a year and a half he earned $555 thousand (~53 million rubles) in the literal sense of doing nothing. His salary was $370 thousand (~35 million rubles) per year, in a year and a half it came out to $555 thousand.

The Internet is actively discussing the ethics of his action, and we have collected everything that is known about this matter.

How did it end up on Amazon?

That same post

An Amazon employee told his Blind story on an anonymous forum.

Blind is an application and forum of the same name where company employees can anonymously discuss working conditions and salaries.

He said he joined Amazon 1.5 years ago “with the intention of doing nothing, free money and eventually getting on a productivity plan.” He decided to recover at Amazon after falling under the balance sheet at Google.

It looks like our hero passed the interview without any problems. He served as a senior technical program manager at Amazon.

How did he work

In short – no way. As the employee himself admits, he spends most of his 8-hour working day at meetings.

My current day job is to show other teams looking to integrate with my team or assign them 95%+ of the work through referrals.

Amazon employee

During his entire time working at Amazon, the man solved 7 problems and created one automatic panel “Children”. He created it in 3 days using ChatGPT. He told the management that it took three months to create the Diptychs at the forum.

“Without exaggeration, I had 0 key goals [в Amazon]“,” the worker added.

What they say on social networks

It is actually unknown whether this is a real post or not. It was removed from Blind a couple of days after its release, and screenshots from this post have already gone viral on X and Reddit.

User opinions are divided. Some criticized the employees for unethical behavior and defrauding the company, while others argued it reflected a larger problem at large IT companies. Some wondered how he himself didn’t get bored coming to the office and doing nothing all day long.

Legend. The funny thing is that after they leave, recruiters will be dying to get them because of their resume.

The guy is doing nothing wrong, he has incompetent management. If you haven’t noticed that a guy has literally done nothing for over a year, you’re guaranteeing that you’ve been robbed.

However, most people admit that such a situation in a large company is indeed possible.

I immediately remember the story of HR manager Meta*, who told TikTok in 2023 that she earned $190 thousand (18.3 million rubles) a year for “doing nothing.”

The girl got a job in the HR department in September 2021. Immediately after that, she stopped engaging with new people. The girl went to work for six months, where, according to her, she did nothing, only sometimes attending a meeting at which nothing was discussed, because other HR managers also could not hire anything.

As a result, the girl quit Meta* in March 2023, a few days before Mark Zuckerberg announced the layoff of 10 thousand employees.

Would you agree to these terms?

It is unknown whether the employee is still employed by Amazon. In any case, his story is interesting, although not unique.

Most likely, these are not isolated cases, and other large companies have similar employees. Would you agree to such a job?

*recognized as extremist and banned in Russia