Exec suing AWS: “I wouldn't want my worst enemy working there”

There&#x27;s bunch of red flags right from the beginning:<p>&gt; When Cindy Warner joined Amazon Web Services in February 2020, she saw it as an opportunity to increase diversity and reshape the company’s strategy. ... Warner, ... said she had faced pay discrimination and an underlying culture of sexism and homophobia. She sued the cloud computing company alleging that male executives at AWS treated her with “open contempt, insults, and hostility” and upheld a “white boys’ club” – and claims she was fired shortly after.<p>It sounds like _she_ was the most toxic person there and was yeeted from the team for a reason.

“… and according to the lawsuit she was hired at a lower tier than she felt she qualified for.”<p>I can’t speak to her personal experiences, but down-leveling is pretty common at every tech company and something someone with 30YOE should have fleshed out during the hiring negotiations.

I haven’t formalized my thinking around this so it could be an incomplete and terrible take, but I’m not sure its a problem that some companies have a “terrible” culture. Obviously, there are protected classes and laws, etc. High Level though, this is an executive position. Just get a new job. Its not like I am yelling at a mcdonalds employee that if they don’t like fast food they can quit and starve to death. Suing a company kind of seems like a money grab. It sounds like she was treated terribly but as a highly compensated and experienced exec, like why didn’t she just walk away. Why bother going through a year of torture and then sue them to point out how bad they treated her. I really hate litigation culture in America.<p>Totally prepared for alternate views and am not married to this PoV. These stories always rub me the wrong way though<p>Edit: By “I’m not sure its a problem to let companies have terrible cultures” I just mean there is room in the market for people to have different approaches. If a culture truly is so bad that people won’t work there, then they won’t attract talent and put out good products and slowly die.

Probably wasn&#x27;t getting the job done. Yawn.

Amazon treating workers poorly &lt;shockedPikachuFace\&gt;