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Amazon is the second largest employee in the US and a manager can only adequately manage so many people.
by scarface74 4y ago
Amazon is the second largest employee in the US and a manager can only adequately manage so many people.
- bart_spoon 4y agoIt really depends on where they work at Amazon. The reason Amazon is the second largest employer is presumably because of the tens of thousands of warehouse/delivery employees. If they are working in a corporate setting, and there is still 10 levels of management between them and the CEO, I imagine it to be pretty bloated.
- scarface74 4y agoIf each manager should only manage 15-20 people (https://www.yourerc.com/blog/post/span-of-control-how-many-employees-should-your-supervisors-manage https://www.yourerc.com/blog/post/span-of-control-how-many-e...) Do the math. Amazon also has at least two major verticals - retail and AWS. Within AWS, Amazon has multiple departments and markets. Without giving too much away, let’s start with the obvious (and I’m just guessing, I am not looking at the internal tool to see the hierarchy right now) CEO of Amazon -> CEO of AWS -> Manager of my specific department worldwide -> manager of specific geographies -> manager of specific verticals within that market -> my manager. That’s 6. I’m sure I’m missing a few and I just completely made up that hierarchy. But it is a logical division. A typical McDonalds worked in a corporate owned store could probably go up 6 levels - worker - shift lead - store manager - regional manager - district manager - two more levels - CEO
- hotpotamus 4y agoMy impression is that a lot of the retail type workers are managed by/with a lot of automation. I've read that they can be fired simply by KPI without human review. If that's correct, I can say I wouldn't want to be the one to write that code.