With a company as large and wealthy as Amazon, it has more than enough resources to take down its competitors in the streaming industry — but why hasn’t it? Prime Video boasts the adaptations of several big-name franchises, likeFallout,
but the technology foundation that Amazon’s built upon seems to be a problem for its streaming business., some of the tension behind the scenes at Prime Video stems from Amazon’s Big Tech culture. Amazon is notorious for how it treats employees as cogs in the larger business machine, and that doesn’t exactly mesh well with the talent-obsessed ways of Hollywood.
Amazon caps base pay for employees at $350,000 with stock options. That’s not the way compensation is handled in Hollywood or even at most other big streaming companies. Employees at Netflix, for example, can choose how much of their compensation they want in stock versus base pay. With Amazon’s compensation structure being so different, the insiders who spoke tosuggested that many Amazon Prime execs were simply “marking time to get as much stock [to vest] as they can.
Amazon has also apparently extended its “agile seating” arrangement to its entertainment arm. This means only the top executives get their own offices, while the rest of the employees are left storing their personal items in not-so-glamorous lockers and doing their work in unassigned cubicles. That doesn’t seem to translate well to the world of Hollywood, where a good office for hosting talent and taking calls is as much a sign of status as it is important for the job.
I find it hard to see that as a dealbreaker between those two companies. The real culture issue at Amazon is at Twitch, and there isn't an easy way to handle that at the moment.
I always forget that amazon prime video was a thing lmfao