[tgma]

Imagine the bottom 14000 managers from Amazon on the loose getting jobs elsewhere and spreading the worst parts of its culture around in other companies. Effectively unleashes a biological virus at other FAANGs and smaller companies. Good job Amazon.

[linotype]

To the contrary, the ex-Amazon managers I’ve worked with explicitly tell me they avoid implementing ideas from Amazon in terms of management.

[39896880]

Yes. Ex-Amazon here. The part where I horse-trade putting engineers on PIP so I can keep my UAR up -- I don't spread that to other companies because it's toxic as fuck and leads to my friends on H1Bs getting deported.

[belter]

Is it any worst than the ex Facebook and Google employees?

"Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers" - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/meta-facebook-...

"Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees" - https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-core...

[tgma]

Google and Facebook do not indoctrinate their managers with Amazon management policies.

[phendrenad2]

What makes you think they're really the bottom?

[tgma]

What makes you think otherwise, statistically?

[phendrenad2]

There isn't any reason to believe that companies can or even want to identify the lowest performers, especially when doing mass headcount reduction.

[tgma]

There isn't any reason to believe...

There's no reason to believe the sky is blue.

...even want to identify...

Short of cuts of an entire division, sounds like fairy tales. Now, they might want to claim they have or have not done so; that's a different issue.

[phendrenad2]

What are you even talking about?

[tgma]

I am simply suggesting your assertion is self-evidently false.