[worthless-trash]

What do you mean "take the money" ? Is it some kind of payout to leave ?

[max_hammer]

In Amazon, you are intially put on Focus, i.e management start building a case against against your performance (Documentation).

Once focus period ends, you are given option to take Severance or Performance improvement plan (PiP).

[ShamelessC]

That is dehumanizing.

[dookahku]

it is, and if we ever get a software engineer union this is one of the first things we should target.