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> Ghaderi was offered a new role with the opportunity to become an applied science manager. She rejoined as a engineering manager at the top of a salary band, l

> Ghaderi was offered a new role with the opportunity to become an applied science manager. She rejoined as a engineering manager at the top of a salary band, leading a team of one scientist and two engineers. So she was an L6 manager, maybe a lower-end L7 manager, but my guess is still L6. That's not even anywhere close to "exec" level. It's the entry-level management position at Amazon. The sexism claims sounds brutal, but it grinds my gears when some news outlet tries to make it sound like some middle-manager grunt was "an executive". And if you take away the "Ex-Amazon exec" claim, this story really just becomes "yet another ex-Amazon person that was put on a performance improvement plan and feels wronged by it", which is understandable and maybe there's a valid case here for retaliation... but it's not newsworthy, and certainly doesn't fit the title. edit: just read the complaint, she reported to an an L6, which means 99.9% she was an L6.

pigbearpig 2y ago
“The complaint argues the plan was designed to ensure Ghaderi's failure. For example, the first goal required her to create a plan to reduce data storage costs across the entire AmazonBot web crawling organization by 75 percent in just eight workdays.” If that is true, that’s pretty absurd.
- NathanKP 2y ago
  I think the way this is worded is deliberately misleading. It's worded as if she needed to actually reduce the costs in eight days, but it can also be read as "create a plan in just eight work days". And that should certainly be doable. In fact you could do a little bit of research and then write the vast majority of that plan doc with AI and it would likely be good enough.
- janalsncm 2y ago
  Turn it off 75% of the time. Or subsample urls with probability 25%. In all seriousness, I’m not sure the particulars of the plan even matter since the purpose is to get rid of an employee, not to actually be achieved.
  - everforward 2y ago
    Redirects S3 to /dev/null and points out that data consistency wasn’t their OKR.

pigbearpig 2y ago

“The complaint argues the plan was designed to ensure Ghaderi's failure. For example, the first goal required her to create a plan to reduce data storage costs across the entire AmazonBot web crawling organization by 75 percent in just eight workdays.” If that is true, that’s pretty absurd.

NathanKP 2y ago
I think the way this is worded is deliberately misleading. It's worded as if she needed to actually reduce the costs in eight days, but it can also be read as "create a plan in just eight work days". And that should certainly be doable. In fact you could do a little bit of research and then write the vast majority of that plan doc with AI and it would likely be good enough.
janalsncm 2y ago
Turn it off 75% of the time. Or subsample urls with probability 25%. In all seriousness, I’m not sure the particulars of the plan even matter since the purpose is to get rid of an employee, not to actually be achieved.
- everforward 2y ago
  Redirects S3 to /dev/null and points out that data consistency wasn’t their OKR.