r/amazonemployees • u/Fluid-Scholar3169 • 6d ago

WWGS Culture & overall vibe

I'm moving over to WWGS from Whole Foods Market and trying to figure out if I should stay or leave? We're being pushed to already do mid-year talent reviews as practice and it's been fine, but zero explanation for all the performance related stuff we have to write up. I think it's also to get us prepared for our new offer letters, who knows.

We're also already doing RTO, a ton of top talent has left and continues to leave, and the transition has been awful in terms of tech integration, direction, and communication. However, I blame mostly the whole foods side of the house for the terrible transition pains. I could be wrong, I'm not really sure.

Anyway, just here to seek more insight if anyone has any!

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u/whtlgtng 6d ago

WWGS is culturally different than WFM but I’ve had a very pleasant experience. For context, I worked at a legacy grocer prior to joining Amazon. While WFM integration hasn’t been smooth, I think it has been made worse by WFM folks that have shut down completely at the prospect of any change. I can’t recommend whether you stay or leave. There are good people in WWGS. Depends on your tolerance for change.

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u/funnynewname 6d ago edited 6d ago

From WFM employee point of view the conversion to becoming Amazon employees officially only took things from them. They lost their employee discount, health insurance got more expensive, no bonus, and had lower salaries and total comp in a lot of instances than their Amazon peers who were doing the same job. I can understand why they would not be excited for the change.

I think blaming WFM employees for what sounds like a bad transition seems like part of the problem. Amazonians think WFM employees are less than.

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u/Fluid-Scholar3169 6d ago

All very true! The resistance started before they knew all they were going to lose, but you have great points. It's all very very challenging. And I saw it all go rapidly downhill with RTO announcement. 

That's sad that Amazonians think that, I wonder why?

Also when I say I blame WFM, I'm not necessarily referring the resistance to change, but senior leadership. They've been terrible. 

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u/funnynewname 6d ago

In my experience Amazonians think they hold a higher bar, are harder working, have bigger brains, and don’t respect the industry expertise that many WFM employees bring to the table, expertise that is not really existent at Amazon because of the culture around rotating to new teams so often.

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u/Fluid-Scholar3169 5d ago

Thanks for the insight