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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?
They just want breed donkeys and call them leaders.
Paid and fed like monkeys
India!!!!
You just poured water on snowflake’s data driven hypothesis!
Amazon's no rehire policy is a major reason they can't find people to work, hence they are going international for more visa slaves.
Most visa workers obtained their degrees in the US and are included in that 65000 figure
Um it's not just US new grads that get hired as engineers. Understand your Tam ❄️
They take anyone who can pass their moderate interview process. Don't need a degree. Don't need to be US.
It's interesting math but is ultimately irrelevant. We don't just hire university grads. Only about 20% of my org is university grads each year. The supply >>> demand for us. "Isn’t it sheer stupidity that they have mandatory URA targets, which artificially reduces their talent pool?" Even if URA reduces talent pool, that doesn't mean it's stupid. You might as well say, "Why doesn't Amazon just hire everyone who applies? Isn't it sheer stupidity that they reject some candidates, which reduces their talent pool?" Given that supply >>> demand, URA does make some sense in that you're able to raise the bar on your overall engineering. Contrast that to other companies where the hardest part is getting in and it's almost impossible to get PIP'd, and thus you're stuck with deadweight. Now don't get me wrong, I HATE URA and would love to at least decrease the target quite a bit if not get rid of it altogether, so that you're not forced to get rid of good people. But, from a purely draconian viewpoint, there are SOME benefits to the poiicy.
I’m curious where 70k came from. That seems high tbh.
You’re forgetting 1 billion CS degrees conferred in India each year
This dude gets it
Instead of asking why, first ask if. Amazon no longer has a URA quota, though I don’t want to put a wet blanket on your bashing of a company you don’t work for.
Evidence? Lowly l4
Unfortunately, the same way the URA target was never published, the abolishment of the URA target was never published either.