Amazon Employee Admits To Earning $370K While Doing 'Nothing' For Over A Year

A senior Amazon employee has made headlines after revealing on an anonymous forum that he has been earning a substantial salary for over a year and a half without contributing any meaningful work to the company. The employee, who holds the position of Senior Technical Programme Manager at Amazon, confessed on an anonymous platform that he has been collecting over $370,000 (approximately ₹3.10 crore) annually while doing "nothing."

The employee, who joined Amazon after being laid off by Google, admitted that his intention from the start was to do as little as possible and "get free money," eventually expecting to be put on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). In his post, which has since gone viral, he revealed that during his time at Amazon, he has only resolved seven support tickets and developed a single automated dashboard. He claimed that the dashboard took three months to build, but in reality, it was completed in just three days with the help of the AI chatbot ChatGPT.

Most of his 8-hour workday, he said, is spent attending meetings, where his primary activity is rejecting requests from other teams. "My current day-to-day is saying no to other teams wanting to integrate with my team or have them own 95%+ of the integration work," he wrote.

The post has sparked a wide-ranging discussion online, with some users criticising the employee's lack of contribution, while others argue that his actions highlight a broader issue within corporate structures. The revelation has raised questions about corporate efficiency and the challenges of managing large teams in global companies like Amazon.