Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b...
by philwelch on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:40PM
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But if that last person is good enough to get past the bar raiser, they wouldn’t necessarily be the one getting fired later. It would make more sense to just hire more people than you need in the first place, intending to fire the worst performer later on without necessarily knowing ahead of time who that worst performer is going to be. Which is brutal but has a certain logic to it.
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Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b...
by username90 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:13PM
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Many teams has higher standard than the company bar though, the company bar is the lowest possible level anyone is allowed to be hired at not some decent average. In theory a bar raiser should ensure the candidate is better than 50% of those in similar roles, but that obviously can't be true after all these years, the bad 50% has all gotten hired via the same process.
Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b...
by lokar on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:34PM
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You seem to assume totally objective performance management
Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b...
by philwelch on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:17PM
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No.
Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b...
by cryptische on Thursday June 03, 2021 @12:20AM
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Managers generally overrule other's opinions by giving promise of personally "coaching" the new hire to make them meet the bar.
In most cases such people are put on a plan, ironically called "Coaching Plan" itself, and thereafter fired.
URA quota is an open secret at Amazon, and some employee appreciate the practice of hire to fire, as it saves their own employment.
That in turn ensures that objection to bad hire, who is going to be "coached" is non existent.