UnRegretted Attrition.
He has to push the big red button on someone. That's the problem.
hard to say. probably the people who are high enough to make any change are too removed from the action to see the problems. maybe stories like this going viral will change things (companies do anything these days to…
Agree. It is unlikely the manager did this out of pettiness. He probably got pressured by his L7/L8 to fire someone for his org to meet the URA goal. He made the obvious choice and picked the guy applying for internal…
The root cause for almost every Amazon horror story is the URA goal.
I'm suprised to hear Facebook is this way. Almost everyone in Facebook that I know is chilling 50% of the time :)
On theory it makes sense. Any large organization experience bloat and there are lots of white collar employees who do nothing while collecting a salary. Regularly trimming the fat is good. In practice however, attrition…
This article is pretty accurate: https://www.businessinsider.com/patrick-mcgah-quit-amazon-op...
Also an Amazon tech manager. I confirm that this is also my experience. Managers don't like to put people into Focus or Pivot (unless the employee is absolutely terrible, which is rare). But we all have URA quotas to…
UnRegretted Attrition.
He has to push the big red button on someone. That's the problem.
hard to say. probably the people who are high enough to make any change are too removed from the action to see the problems. maybe stories like this going viral will change things (companies do anything these days to…
Agree. It is unlikely the manager did this out of pettiness. He probably got pressured by his L7/L8 to fire someone for his org to meet the URA goal. He made the obvious choice and picked the guy applying for internal…
The root cause for almost every Amazon horror story is the URA goal.
I'm suprised to hear Facebook is this way. Almost everyone in Facebook that I know is chilling 50% of the time :)
On theory it makes sense. Any large organization experience bloat and there are lots of white collar employees who do nothing while collecting a salary. Regularly trimming the fat is good. In practice however, attrition…
This article is pretty accurate: https://www.businessinsider.com/patrick-mcgah-quit-amazon-op...
Also an Amazon tech manager. I confirm that this is also my experience. Managers don't like to put people into Focus or Pivot (unless the employee is absolutely terrible, which is rare). But we all have URA quotas to…