Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos defends their corporate culture

It seems that it’s open season on Amazon since The New York Times’ (NYT) exposé last August.

“You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face. Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk”, said Bo Olson, who worked at the company as part of the book-marketing division, to the paper.

Jason Merkoski, a former Amazon Engineer, added that the Big Brother culture emanates from the Boardroom and is reportedly spurred on by Jeff Bezos, CEO of the company: “Heaven help if you got an email from Jeff. It’s as if you’ve got the CEO of the company in bed with you at 3am breathing down your neck.”

At the time Bezos said in an internal memo that “the article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day”, and now he has defended the corporate culture in a letter to shareholders, although there are no specific references to NYT’s exposé.