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Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b... by willcipriano on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:38PM (#27371653)
This makes sense. If I knew my team was going to lose 6% of it's members, I'd hire 6% more people to compensate for the loss. Even if the goal isn't to fire them that's what ends up happening.
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Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b... by UncleMeat on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:30AM (#27381010)
6% is in the noise for software planning. Is there ever a single project where you are confident that 20 people is what you need so you can submit a headcount request for 21 so that you'll have one to drop? I've never seen planning that was able to achieve this level of precision.
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