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This doesn't address stack ranking and PIP. Any employment that intentionally puts your continued relation on a chopping block to keep you in a precarious situa
by Frost1x 4y ago
This doesn't address stack ranking and PIP. Any employment that intentionally puts your continued relation on a chopping block to keep you in a precarious situation isn't an ideal working condition, which now includes Google. I get the idea of trying to manage slack but the fact is, all humans need some slack in efficiency and improving labor efficiency indefinitely isn't realisitic nor is a culture most want to work in and it's caught up with AWS. At some point, you're simply doing your labor force a disservice and just sitting around cracking a whip for no good reason.
- turtledove 4y agoI was a manager at Amazon, I was told that every cycle between 5 to 10% of the engineers in my org needed to be put on PIPs to meet quota.
- raincom 4y agoI heard Google has a good work-life balance. Any changes at Google of late? Like 10% pip?
- ActorNightly 4y agoAttrition needs to exist for any big company. There is a percentage of engineers that manage to make it past the interview who then get complacent and stop caring. While I get that people need leeway to improve, its important to remember that a) doing this on company dollar is not a given, b) FAANG positions pay significantly higher, and c) being employed at FAANG for any amount of time is a big boost to your resume at is. Also, in general, if you are blindsided by a PIP and you aren't in some niche out of the way team with politics involved, you probably should not be working at FAANG.
- turtledove 4y agoAmazon has a forced curve, meaning an org with generally well performing engineers can be forced to put 5% or more on a PIP.