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Indeed. I remember there was an article that said it wasn't even necessarily product management as it was Bezos who more or less governed the product design. I
by rifung 11y ago
Indeed. I remember there was an article that said it wasn't even necessarily product management as it was Bezos who more or less governed the product design.
In any case, I find it a bit bizarre that they would just fire them when AWS is hiring so heavily. You would think they would just shuffle them to other parts of the org. While I was there we would get new people from other parts of Amazon that were downsizing all the time like Silk.
- dmoy 11y agoWhen I interviewed at Amazon it was mostly the team I was joining doing the interview. It may be that they do not have a uniform hiring bar across all their organizations, which makes shuffling people around a lot harder. (Maybe not impossible, but harder)
- umeshunni 11y agoMoreover, it's very likely that these are hardware engineers, not SWEs.