How can Amazon find enough people to hire given the URA targets?
Sep 21, 2021
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Amazon has ~70000 devs. Let’s say 10% get PIPed or leave on Dev List every cycle, then that means 14000 people are marked as not eligible for rehire every year.
The US only confers ~ 65000 CS degrees annually, and that figure includes all the low-tier universities and community colleges. Only a fraction of those 65000 will be competent enough to code, and I think the actual number of proficient programmers produced in the US is close to 10000-20000 annually.
Clearly not all of these programmers will want to join Amazon. How can Amazon find enough people to hire? Isn’t it sheer stupidity that they have mandatory URA targets, which artificially reduces their talent pool?
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This is the highest rating the manager can deliver to the employee. However, it maps to multiple ratings in the actual system (Top Tier, Highly Valued 1, 2, or 3). Every time I enter a ratings meeting I basically tell my manager to cut the bullshit and tell me the real rating. They usually refuse unless they are cool, so I use it to gauge how much I can trust my manager.
If you aren’t gonna tell me the actual rating, I’m at least going to gauge how trustworthy you are and then make decisions around that whether I should move on.