A look at Amazon HR's Connections daily Q&A and strengths-focused Forte annual reviews, presumably responses to 2015 NYT exposé of brutal working environment
- Some employees who spoke to CNBC expressed concerns about the program's confidentiality and the usefulness of the data. Tweets: @eugenekim222 and @eugenekim222 Tweets: Eugene Kim / @eugenekim222 : Scoop: Amazon employees have mixed feelings about Connections, the daily Q&A program rolled out company-wide last April. A new team called People Science closely analyzes data. It hired ex-MSFT AI researcher Krish Krishnan for the team last year. https://twitter.com/... Eugene Kim / @eugenekim222 : Forte, a new annual review process, is more popular. It highlights positive things, like your “super powers.” Connections data showed Amazon employees appreciate the focus on positives, HR boss Beth Galletti said in internal email.