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The hiring freeze has already been horrendous. We're told to keep hitting all our goals even if we lose people and can't hire to backfill. Now we're just straig
by amznthroway 9y ago
The hiring freeze has already been horrendous. We're told to keep hitting all our goals even if we lose people and can't hire to backfill. Now we're just straight up losing people to layoffs? Keeping the lights on alone is barely possible with the resources we have.
It would be one thing if we were in dire straights as a company. Imho, this is just short-sighted nonsense so some senior leader can hit an arbitrary goal and get a bonus.
I wonder if Alexa or AWS are hiring.
- jonknee 9y ago> I wonder if Alexa or AWS are hiring. ... The very first sentence of the article: > as the company shifts resources into fast-growing areas like its work on voice assistant Alexa
- dboreham 9y ago>short-sighted nonsense so some senior leader can hit an arbitrary goal and get a bonus This is in fact how most business decisions are made.
- BookmarkSaver 9y agoYes, Amazon is known for its short-sightedness...
- KallDrexx 9y agoThat's funny if they've had a hiring freeze since last week I got contacted by an Amazon recruiter wanting me to move to Seattle
- davidw 9y agoGot one today too. Put on a Gore tex coat and stood under the shower, on cold, for a half an hour, and decided that Seattle is probably not to my liking outside of, say, late July.
- qubex 9y agoI’ve only ever visited Seattle in the second half of July and found it to be stellar.
- davidw 9y agoThe PNW west of the Cascades is glorious in summer. Blue skies, clean air, no humidity, warm temperatures but not too warm. But the long, drizzly, gray winters are hell for those of us who like sunlight. If you want to move to the area, visit in November or March or something to get an idea of what it's really like.
- egypturnash 9y agoJanuary and February. That's where I always start to break down in misery. It's been cloudy for ages. The days are starting to get longer but they're still short. And I start wondering if moving back home to New Orleans would be all that bad. Surely that wouldn't coincide with a hurricane trashing the place twice in my lifetime, would it?
- msds 9y agoIt was sunny today, and yesterday. It's been really weird, because I guess I had forgotten what sun was like...
- cylinder 9y agoCan't you drive east for a couple of hours and get lots of sun? This was my understanding of Washington.
- davidw 9y agoThe weather is much better east of the Cascades. But a 2 hour drive (in good weather!) means it's not something you're likely to do all that often.
- egypturnash 9y ago
- enknamel 9y agoAs someone working in Amazon retail, I have to say I'm now worried. Though it does feel like we don't have enough people to do the work we are planning to do for the year.
- BookmarkSaver 9y ago>It would be one thing if we were in dire straights as a company. Oh, so as long as the company is profitable, it should just throw money at employees that are no longer adding net value? >Imho, this is just short-sighted nonsense so some senior leader can hit an arbitrary goal and get a bonus. Based on what? Reading an article with no internal insight and absolutely no knowledge of the business itself? Sounds more like you have an ax to grind. >I wonder if Alexa or AWS are hiring. I mean, you didn't even read the article.
- southphillyman 9y ago>I mean, you didn't even read the article. They work at Amazon, probably doesn't have the time to read full articles
- praneshp 9y agoMy wife works at amazon, and has time to read such stuff as well has have a lot of fun, intellectually and otherwise, at work.
- cycrutchfield 9y agohopefully she has a better sense of humor than you do
- BookmarkSaver 9y agoI posted this while working at Amazon.
- throwamzn6969 9y agoGuys like Bezos and Wilke don't really worry about their bonuses. It's not about bonuses, it's about becoming the first trillion-dollar company.
- amorphid 9y agoI've been contacted be 2 or 3 AWS recruiters in the last month, so presumably they are hiring.
- philipwhiuk 9y ago> Keeping the lights on alone is barely possible with the resources we have. Surely with half a million employees you have at least one person on lightbulbs.
- wwice 9y ago> Surely with half a million employees you have at least one person on lightbulbs. Or you can just ask Alexa to turn the lights.
- vkou 9y ago> Imho, this is just short-sighted nonsense so some senior leader can hit an arbitrary goal and get a bonus. Welcome to centralized economic planning, mega-corp edition. Pick a number.