Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers

Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by throwme1234 on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:18PM (#27584644)

My impression is that most teams have high enough natural attrition that it doesn't really matter and some teams even seem completely immune to any sort of real change, even if they do extremely poorly on their deliverables. I know a few teams that other teams actively avoid working with, even preferring to reinvent some of their solutions, yet, more or less the same people have been working on these underperforming teams for several years.

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Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by rejectedandsad on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:46PM (#27584937)

I’ve noticed this too in my time in my org, it’s reasonably common to just rebuild something simple if the other team isn’t responding to your tickets and escalations. The fact that they are three or four different time zones away from me on either side of the country doesn’t help.

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Re:Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company press... by discodave on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:39PM (#27610794)

I never asserted that Amazon's performance management system was effective.

(although I worked at a place that never fired anybody and I'm not sure I recommend that either)

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