> "Assuming a steady rate, that would mean Amazon was firing more than 10 percent of its staff annually, solely for productivity reasons." This is very common

> "Assuming a steady rate, that would mean Amazon was firing more than 10 percent of its staff annually, solely for productivity reasons." This is very common at a lot of white-collar places that do stack-ranking. From a different perspective, places like Google reject 99% of candidates because they "only hire the best." Whereas Amazon warehouses seem to do the opposite - they are liberal in giving people a shot, and then rigorously weed out anyone with lagging job performance. I suspect a lot of people who get rejected at the interview stage for bullshit reasons would actually prefer the latter approach.