Amazon confirms corporate staff cuts that could hit 10k employees

Post by NBJack » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 4:00 AM UTC

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Context: I recently left Amazon Some orgs within the company are fairly lean, some are hugely bloated. Amazon isn't homogeneous. For example, Alexa is very over-resourced and it's common to hear about 4+ teams working on slight variations of the same project. Lots of redundancy there. I believe Alexa as an org is losing $5b+ per year. Contrast that to all the criticism Facebook is receiving for their investment into…

Unlike Facebook Alexa was somewhat successful. See Alexa microwaves, cars, TVs, etc.. It looks like Amazon also knows when to move on vs. Meta.

Post by I_AM_A_SMURF » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 4:57 AM UTC

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Could you help explain why the general consensus seems to consider Amazon as a just given backup and easy interview path (but the hard part is the actual job crunch apparently)? They still do leetcode screening don’t they? IMO they’ve been harder than the others because the process is so automated that you either pass or fail on the code test. There’s no tech interviewer to give you a hint unless they changed that re…

“You either memorized the solution to the random leetcode problem you get or you fail as far as I understand it.” No? You can actually use code to solve problems. Don’t buy into the defeatism surrounding leetcode interviews.

Post by digianarchist » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 6:07 AM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #240

Why do severance packages exist? I like the concept, and I appreciate it’s a standard practice and in some cases the law. But what’s the logic behind them?

Post by scrame » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 6:58 AM UTC

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> They still do leetcode screening don’t they? I mean that's a big part of what makes it so easy. Near zero "culture fit" or anything random you just need to solve easy problems.

Our training material explicitly excludes culture fit questions or decisions since it is a source of bias.

Post by smeagull » Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 7:33 AM UTC

chairhairair wrote: post #135

bgro wrote: post #123

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Could you help explain why the general consensus seems to consider Amazon as a just given backup and easy interview path (but the hard part is the actual job crunch apparently)? They still do leetcode screening don’t they? IMO they’ve been harder than the others because the process is so automated that you either pass or fail on the code test. There’s no tech interviewer to give you a hint unless they changed that re…

“You either memorized the solution to the random leetcode problem you get or you fail as far as I understand it.” No? You can actually use code to solve problems. Don’t buy into the defeatism surrounding leetcode interviews.