Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

Post by rashkov » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 11:36 PM UTC

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Thanks very much for this. I've been fortunate enough to find similar things (though at a much smaller scale than AWS) at my current workplace. If you're still reading this, I would love to know whether you can get the above with some kind of semblance of a worklife balance. Do you have coworkers that maintain a 40 hour workweek, and don't have to work on weekends? How far away from that "ideal" can one get while sti…

Very team-specific again. There are definitely horror stories of teams that are struggling to hire (because of misinformation like in this thread), yet still have to maintain a service operationally, so have an oncall rotation of 4 people. 25% of your life getting paged? No thank you, not for me. Usually, these get identified, escalated, and some form of help is brought in. But it requires a manager not to be too pro…

Post by surement » Mon, Jun 27, 2022, 4:48 PM UTC

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> with your own time, you can find ways to feed yourself, provide yourself with shelter, etc. You still have the option to quit your job if you're employed and don't find it worth your while. > strategically & systemically quite harmful How?

> > with your own time, you can find ways to feed yourself, provide yourself with shelter, etc. ? You still have the option to quit your job if you're employed and don't find it worth your while. Yes. > > strategically & systemically quite harmful > How? If that's more than rhetorical, I suggest you do some reading. If it is rhetorical, I'll just assume you think everything would work great if we had a minimum prevai…