I heard from my friends that Amazon aggressively hires more candidates so that managers can protect existing employees from putting them as 10% bottom performers and put some of the new candidates into PIP instead?
If this is true it is such a broken HR system. Sometimes new candidates do need more time to ramp up and learn the corporate politics.
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I’ve been at Amazon for 5 years. Been a manager for 2.5 years. Hired half a dozen people. Promoted 5. PIP’d one.
It is A LOT of work to hire people. It is even more work to performance manage and PIP someone. No one has the time and energy to hire someone for the purposes of firing them later just to protect their team.
If you identify someone on your team as LE (under performing), you have to try to develop and coach them. If that person actually tries to improve then they won’t have to be pip’d.
I understand Amazon gets a lot of hate and has a lot of areas to improve, but some things said here are straight up lies or misinformation.
If this company is truly horrible, no one would work there. People would be miserable and it would not be around for 20+ years and considered one of the best companies in the world to work for.
SMH @ blind.
Once a while you'll see that if a manager is from one ethnicity/race, you can almost guess that the churn group is in another race, since communication play a very important role in developing trust in Amazon.
I feel Amazon SDMs are the root cause of this horrific and toxic work culture in Amazon.They have immense discretionary power which they use as they please.
PS: A team with good WLB in Amazon is an outlier and teams with horrific WLB, bad managers are the norm. So whenever you see, someone praising Amazon vehemently, you should realize that he/she either might be an HR/Manager or an IC from the outlier.
The SDE's that challanges the manager for the good of the companies are the first ones to be let go.