How Amazon forced a new mother and cancer survivor to resign

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by Sindy Cator on August 26, 2015 at 5:04 pm

Reports about Amazon’s incredibly competitive workplace — articulated by The New York Times as “purposeful Darwinism,” where only the most dedicated and hardworking enter a system of perpetual challenges of judgment and intense reviews by peers and managers — have been met with divisive views. Vox’s Ezra Klein recently said, “It’s hard for me on some fundamental level to get that concerned about the Amazon employees who are there by choice in Seattle and have other job options.” But hearing the first-person account of Julia Cheiffetz, who served as the Editorial Director of Amazon Publishing from 2011 to 2014, shows how…