Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked documents

Re:Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked... by pjc50 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:44AM (#33244942)

> We had specific projects where we easily burned out dozens of engineers

"Amazon" is named after the rainforest, and like the rainforest, developers are an infinite resource that you can burn down forever and there will never be any consequences .. until somehow you run out.

Really the only solution to this is for people to withdraw their labour - not just unionization but refusing to work for them in the first place.

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Re:Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked... by Der_Einzige on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:15AM (#33247510)

I straight up refuse to do phone interviews with them and force them to move me directly to an onsite (which I won't study for) just so that I can waste their engineers time and maybe have a tiny chance of stroking my ego by getting a FAANG offer.

No FAANG offer yet, but by my calculations, Amazon has wasted 5 digit sums on assesing me.

Bezos made it personal with how he treated my partner while they worked for him, so I'll have my petty revenge one way or another...

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Re:Amazon’s attrition costs $8B annually according to leaked... by ben_w on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:46AM (#33261317)

I sympathise, but wasting 5 digits of Bezos' paper net worth, is like someone trying to take revenge on most people here by a dime.

"But for me, it was Tuesday", as the trope is called.

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