Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year

Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by deegles on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:56PM (#13561682)

They just rolled out a new annual review process (starting this month) and changed rules around switching teams and such.

I don't know how much of that is a result of the article though.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by donavanm on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:13PM (#13561845)

Im personally not a fan of the new review & promo process. There seem to be some obvious, and some hidden, risks. In my opinion it reduces depth of the content, breadth of the review, and broader exposure/evaluation inside the org.

The "new" transfer policy is actually from 2015 or 2016. Historically transfers in less than 1 year of employment required senior manager approval. New policy is free to transfer after 30 days. As I recall. For details see inside/wiki/

There are also changes in the SDE1 to SDE2 promo process and SDE leveling/coaching/role normalization across amazon.

From what I saw of timing and content neither change was strictly related to the nyt article.

Source: Principal Engineer in AWS, coming up on 6 years at amazon, a few years doing tech/promo assessments.

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Re:Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K peo... by iamleppert on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:58PM (#13562228)

Maybe you can tell me why their recruiters for AWS are the worst to deal with? Terrible people, I wish they would stop hitting me up...

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