Manager visibility @ AWS layoff
When L3-L5 ICs are impacted at G, their L6-L8 managers often had no say in that matter, sometimes no advance notifications either. Is it same at AWS? If you are a L6+ manager at AWS and your team was impacted, did you get to select the candidates? I don’t think any company is totally immune to layoffs but I find it very odd that people with very little to no knowledge in our day to day work are making such decisions at G and in fact some subject matter experts were impacted who were really the top performers.
If you don't have visibility past your skip, you are learning now why you should
When the layoffs hit my AWS team last year I found out who I was losing at 4pm. They were notified at 8am the next morning. L7 SDM The decision was made entirely at L8+ level
Was the selection fair and justified? If you were asked to make that selection - do you know if you would have selected the same people? Is it always based on past performance reviews?
Yes that's always the case. https://www.teamblind.com/post/[Update---More-tips]-Got-laid-off-from-Meta-in-2023---My-top-tips-to-get-back-in-the-game-DjOJFYWa
I am an L6 people manager in my team. In my org at Amazon, my manager, L7, has always been transparent about ppl she had to pick during various cycles of layoff. I am yet to see a case in my org where the manager didn’t already know/ selected the people that were going to get impacted. How does google pick people without having any knowledge of their impact/day-to-day! That sounds crazy
Good to know, thank you
This is the Google way!