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They don't have chronically overworked employees. They simply burn them out and then replace them with newer/younger workers. I think the NYT reported that the
by severus_bro 11y ago
They don't have chronically overworked employees. They simply burn them out and then replace them with newer/younger workers.
I think the NYT reported that the average tenure of an Amazon worker is 1 year. Just let that sink in for a minute.
- InclinedPlane 11y agoOh, I know, I was there (for 1 year, ironically). I was talking more generally. Amazon is at the higher end of unsustainable, like most of the gamedev industry (for example), but on the company scale there's always more workers feeding into the top of the funnel, so they can still get the work done, they don't care that they're churning through employees. Nevertheless, fundamentally most tech companies work on a similar model, they're just not as horrid as Amazon so the process isn't as obviously absurd. But it's still a broken system that I don't think anyone really knows how to fix, yet.
- severus_bro 11y agoI don't think Amazon and the other corporations perceive this as a broken system. It looks like they want/designed it like this.
- deciplex 11y agoSince you were there: What effect does that churn have on their technology? If the average developer only sticks around for one or two years before burning out, subject-matter experts are going to be really scarce, and once you don't have any of those you lose the ability to innovate in any meaningful sense.