A Job at Amazon Isn't for Everybody

It was the weekend’s great litmus test. After reading Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld’s epic New York Times account of what it’s like to work at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, were you appalled or impressed? Would you never ever ever consider working at that horrible place, or are you filling out an application at www.amazon.jobs right now?

Journalists were of course almost entirely in the former camp. But this shouldn’t be surprising -- one of the main attractions of becoming a reporter has long been that you don’t have to work in a numbers-oriented, meeting-heavy corporate environment. It’s harder to escape that environment nowadays even in journalism, but Amazon clearly takes it to a pretty demanding extreme.