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Amazon’s “Day 1” culture primes employees for constant change. And there’s been plenty of it lately: a five-day return-to-office mandate, an AI push, and mass layoffs. Business Insider interviewed 12 current and recent employees about how it’s going.Here’s what they told us. The responses have been edited for length and…
Roblox just made a big hire it hopes can unlock its next stage of growth. Loading audio narration… The online entertainment and gaming platform exclusively told CMO Insider it had appointed John Ciancutti as its first-ever chief growth officer.Ciancutti is responsible for Roblox’s discovery team, which works on its TikTok-like…
When Tejal Rives was laid off from Amazon in October 2025, she and her husband had a plan. Loading audio narration… They had bought a career-coaching and résumé-writing business, Do My Resume LLC, in 2024. Rives used some smart time management hacks to turn it into a side hustle alongside…
Amazon is formally rolling out Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex to all corporate employees, pushing beyond its in-house Kiro tool. Loading audio narration… In a note to staff, obtained by Business Insider, VP of Amazon Software Builder Experience Jim Haughwout said Claude Code would be available company-wide immediately, with…
On April 2, some Amazon sellers got an email that many saw as a breaking point. Starting April 15, Amazon said, their advertising costs would be deducted from their retail proceeds first, with a credit or debit card used only as a backup if those proceeds fell short. Loading audio…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nicholas Jenkins, a market research analyst in his 40s who lives in Texas. He previously worked as a program manager at Amazon until leaving the company in December 2024 after being placed on a performance improvement plan. The following has been…
A former Amazon vice president says getting a bad manager removed is rarely as simple as escalating complaints — and doing so the wrong way can backfire. Loading audio narration… Speaking on “The Peterman Pod,” Ethan Evans said employees often assume that raising concerns to their boss’s manager will automatically…
It started after a trip to Maine during my son’s first year of college. We attended his high school basketball coach’s wedding and noticed that most of his teammates were wearing bow ties. We thought it was a trend, but we discovered something much bigger. Loading audio narration… My son…
Amazon is testing a new program that lets shoppers get Prime shipping benefits on other websites, without ever logging into an Amazon account.The initiative, described as a “Confidential Product” in seller invitations seen by Business Insider, is being piloted with a small group of merchants who use Amazon’s multi-channel fulfillment…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ganesh Karthik Sankar, a 29-year-old UX designer at Google who previously worked at Amazon as a product designer. He lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.During my last job search, I had the opportunity to interview…
