[keeda]

> But I can tell you with fair certainty that Amazon's high turnover rate is NOT happening in their engineering departments, though.

Maybe you mean there hasn't been any change in their turnover recently, but the numbers (not to mention, the horror stories) I heard more than a decade ago from then-current and ex-AMZN folks were already pretty bad.

As an illustrative example, IIRC the average tenure is 21 months, which is just 3 months short of their first big RSU chunk (15%?) vesting. That is, people could not bear to stay another 3 months to get a big chunk of equity that they'd worked for the past 21 months.

If people recall that NY Times article about Amazon culture, I had already heard examples of everything in that article and more from people who had left.