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Signs that it's time to leave a company
- starkparker 3y agoTo be clear this is really a post about Amazon and RTO policies, and written by an ex-Amazon employee. Because: > When the company stops growing, when the founder moves on are certainly signs of changes — the former that either the economics around the company have slowed or they company's matured, the latter too variable to be meaningful — but they aren't necessarily signs that you should quit. And they're are presented here mostly as jabs at Jassy ("I was happy to be leaving as Andy Jassy took over from Jeff Bezos and Adam Selipsky took over AWS"), HR-led corporate culture ("HR processes take up far too much of everyone’s time" at Amazon), and RTO ("we now have the situation that Amazon management care more about real estate than product").
- refulgentis 3y agoVouch, near-synonymous with Google.
- OJFord 3y agoIsn't that a jab at Selipsky rather than Jassy? The author worked within AWS and Jassy headed that org previously right?
- mips_avatar 3y agoI'm not at Amazon so I don't know if RTO is working. But I would like to be on an in-person team again. I live alone, and not having in-person work relationships has been really hard for me.
- hnthrowaway0328 3y agoI think the key is not picking one of the two but having the freedom to pick either.
- rcdemski 3y agoIndeed. I thrive with an in person team but also recognize the majority of my team doesn’t. I greatly appreciate all of us having the individual freedom to choose what works best at my employer.
- hnthrowaway0328 3y agoOur company, after slowly cutting off the dead branches while demanding RTO since September, finally got a new CEO and started a deep cut of dead branches that would continue to the end of January. I'm not sure if it's good news for me as I'm likely to be cut. But I'm curious to see how this unwinds as an insider.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoMissing the biggest tell, probably because Amazon avoids providing them in the first place: Cutting back on irrelevant benefits like food and office supplies. Executives usually don't like layoffs and try to avoid them with easy cuts to things people won't miss. Since these easy cuts are never meaningful (else someone would have already done them), they almost always proceed to the next steps like layoffs.
- sys_64738 3y agoMy rule of thumb of a company cutting costs was when the healthcare & 401K literature goes from glossy color pamphlets to cheap black & white photocopies that they snail mail to you.