| There are lies, damned lies and CRUX statistics. EVERY manager I've interacted with at Amazon looks at CRUX statistics -- it is the actual reason that they exist. My current manage (5 year badge employee btw) is counting my code. We are both L6s and he has shared with me the various target CR each level is expect to do (per week). For L6 it is 4 (in the AWS org) per week. The leadership principals also say "hire and develop the best", which ought to mean that they would be doing the damnedest to keep people. But they don't. I've seen three people Pivoted in the last 6 months -- two of them had been with Amazon (AWS) for over 4 years. These people did not "suddenly" become bad, or shit at their job, or etc. What happened is that they were stacked ranked, and they were at the bottom. The job was, and remains, exactly the same. Which is why stack ranking is stupid. Same job. Same person. One year you are meeting the bar. The next you are the worst at it. |