Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
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Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
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Re: Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
#2In many organizations a promotion will depend on your supervisor's ability to sell it to his superiors. The system at Amazon just makes it more noticeable.
I'm highly opposed to establishing quotas, either for promotion, demotion, hiring, or termination. In all cases, quotas establish a destructive environment.
Re: Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
#3So it's stack ranking by a different name.
Re: Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
#4You should almost always avoid working for low-margin businesses. Sure, if they are new and growing, there's an exception, but if their whole growth plan is premised around being low-margin, it's not going to be a great place to work and advance your career. Expenses such as compensation are always on management's radar.
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#5You should almost always avoid working for low-margin businesses. Sure, if they are new and growing, there's an exception, but if their whole growth plan is premised around being low-margin, it's not going to be a great place to work and advance your career. Expenses such as compensation are always on management's radar.
You've just given me an amazing moment of clarity!
Re: Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
#6I think the most interesting part of the article is when it mentions that anecdotes about an employee's performance most-often dominate these OLRs. It seems that a company with as concrete of a business goal as Amazon's would have the ability to use a more objective means of measuring employee performance.
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#7"Ambitious employees tend to spend months having lunch and coffee with their boss’s peers to ensure a positive outcome once the topic of their proposed promotion is raised in an OLR."
Sounds like all those Microsoft stories that came out a few months ago.
Re: Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
#8You should almost always avoid working for low-margin businesses. Sure, if they are new and growing, there's an exception, but if their whole growth plan is premised around being low-margin, it's not going to be a great place to work and advance your career. Expenses such as compensation are always on management's radar.
It's pretty well known around Seattle that Amazon pays their employees very well, and has a tendency of giving ridiculous signing bonuses.
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#9I wonder if Jeff is a Discworld fan.
Re: Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder
#10How can it be harder to climb Amazon's corporate ladder unless they have less management or do more outside hiring at a senior level than other companies? Somebody has to get promoted to fill the positions, right?