Why is Amazon hiring so many micro managers from outside!!!
Have been an amazonian for >8 years now, have seen good, bad and worse managers. But right now I am seeing a complete different picture. My org is a racist org and I have seen it in the last 1.5 years already. There was this huge attrition where half of the team left last Dec and there is a knowledge gap currently. I trust and respect the leadership (I mean the VP), I was under the assumption they would embrace the remaining talent and hire more. All I see is, they are hiring micro managers from outside, who know jackshit. Their only job is to track time in form of hours to see if someone on the team is actually working or not. I was able to take the racism but unable to handle micro management after so many years at Amazon. The people they hire are new to people management, Amazon, aws but they are good in harassing ICs. I am leaving Amazon, but want to know is this happening all over the board as Amazon claims to pay more money to employees or only in my racist org. #tech #racism #aws #micromanager
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Hiring low talent managers in bulk and providing them only with training on how to PIP and mandating that they hit URA exit quotas so the company never has to announce layoffs and can claw back the unvested RSU packages is all part of the nano-management game at Amazon / AWS.
You asked why, that’s why but it’s unpleasant to read…. even more unpleasant to experience for the reports.
Sad really...and ICs who knew this was a thing would make it a point to become good managers - an unexpected benefit. Gone are the days we could effect the right change in leadership. Micromanaging is so unnecessary when a manager is engaged correctly and knows what they are doing.