Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
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Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#2So they finally figured out most managers are not just useless, but literally a drag to the company and progress?
Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#3They’ll just hire more managers again in 18months
Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#4This is old news and refers to the 15% figure that was announced last year (more than 6 months ago!) and for which the "layoffs" are already completed.
Overall, nothing at all happened, managers looked after their own kind and the worst that happened for some was having to go back to IC positions.
The article is most likely AI generated since it says this was announced "last month" and the article is from March, but the real announcement was September 2024:
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassy...
Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#5Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#6Who lays off the engineers now?
Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#7This is old news and refers to the 15% figure that was announced last year (more than 6 months ago!) and for which the "layoffs" are already completed. Overall, nothing at all happened, managers looked after their own kind and the worst that happened for some was having to go back to IC positions. The article is most likely AI generated since it says this was announced "last month" and the article is from March, but…
How do the cost savings work then?
Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#8So they finally figured out most managers are not just useless, but literally a drag to the company and progress?
No now just senior managers are supposed to pickup the slack and drag the company behind on there own. and also program managers & useless product managers.
jokes apart, long ago when I was there, once somebody did the internal org site scraping and found out in our org there were almost 6 workers (status givers) to 1 status takers. and sr. engineers are supposed to 'manage themselves', so really full of political BSers.
Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#9Most managers are human ticket classifiers.
Re: Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly
#10So they finally figured out most managers are not just useless, but literally a drag to the company and progress?
In my experience, the worst of them are lodged in there tighter than trichinella larvae.