Amazon Employee Admits Earning Rs 3 Crore For Doing 'Almost Nothing'

In today’s job market, success often hinges on achieving work goals and securing a strong compensation package. However, this wasn’t the case for a senior Amazon employee who, despite earning around Rs 3 crore, found himself doing almost nothing. He shared his story on Blind, an anonymous professional community, where people discuss workplace experiences. After being laid off from Google, he landed a role at Amazon as a Senior Technical Program Manager, with a total compensation of $370,000 (approximately Rs 3 crore). Interestingly, he admitted to joining Amazon with the intention of doing “nothing” and earning easy money—and that’s exactly what happened.

“I joined Amazon 1.5 years ago after I was included in Google’s layoff. I joined with the intention of doing “nothing,” getting free money, and eventually getting pip’d. I put in about 8 hours a week, mostly in meetings. Without exaggeration, I owned 0 kingpin goals (Amazon goal process), resolved 7 tickets, and delivered 1 automated dashboard that I built using ChatGPT in 3 days (but said it took 3 months),” he revealed.

The employee went on to boast that his typical 8-hour workday mostly consists of turning down requests from other teams looking to integrate with his department or making them do over 95 per cent of the work themselves. His post quickly went viral, sparking a wide range of reactions. While many criticised his approach, others found it appealing. One user commented, “People who tie their self-esteem and purpose to their corporate job are completely wrong. A person working 2 hours a day, getting paid for 8, and having all that time for their private lives, family, and hobbies is winning at life.”

Another commented, “There is more to life than scamming people and abusing their trust.”

“People that are butthurt about this: 99% of you corporate peons are useless and in denial. If you work a lot, you are either just inefficient or keeping yourself busy with random BS. If you genuinely believe you should work 8-10h per day you drank the corporate kool-aid,” another comment read.

One of the comments read, “These people are ruining the game for everyone else that actually wants to work and earn an honest day’s work.”

A user asserted why tech companies brought layoffs and wrote, “People like this are the reasons why the tech bro layoffs happened. Not even kidding they’re paid way too much to do nothing.”

Reshared on the X platform, the tweet has garnered over 3 million views.