mistyislands

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by mistyislands 5y ago
UnRegretted Attrition.
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by mistyislands 5y ago
He has to push the big red button on someone. That's the problem.
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by mistyislands 5y ago
hard to say. probably the people who are high enough to make any change are too removed from the action to see the problems. maybe stories like this going viral will change things (companies do anything these days to avoid bad PR).
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by mistyislands 5y ago
Agree. It is unlikely the manager did this out of pettiness. He probably got pressured by his L7/L8 to fire someone for his org to meet the URA goal. He made the obvious choice and picked the guy applying for internal transfer. Why
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by mistyislands 5y ago
The root cause for almost every Amazon horror story is the URA goal.
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by mistyislands 5y ago
I'm suprised to hear Facebook is this way. Almost everyone in Facebook that I know is chilling 50% of the time :)
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by mistyislands 5y ago
Yes they can be. Managers also get evaluated the same way. But replacing a manager is usually more hassle, so it's not as common to push them out to meet your URA quota. I've seen it happen once, and they re-org'ed and abo
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by mistyislands 5y ago
On theory it makes sense. Any large organization experience bloat and there are lots of white collar employees who do nothing while collecting a salary. Regularly trimming the fat is good. In practice however, attrition goals are terrible
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by mistyislands 5y ago
This article is pretty accurate: https://www.businessinsider.com/patrick-mcgah-quit-amazon-op...
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by mistyislands 5y ago
Also an Amazon tech manager. I confirm that this is also my experience. Managers don't like to put people into Focus or Pivot (unless the employee is absolutely terrible, which is rare). But we all have URA quotas to fill, mandated b