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Bad for innovative product engineers at companies like Amazon, too. Pretty demoralising to have your product canned on a whim after years of effort to bring it
by Reason077 2y ago
Bad for innovative product engineers at companies like Amazon, too. Pretty demoralising to have your product canned on a whim after years of effort to bring it to release. Maybe it’s better to just work on boring things, don’t stick your neck out…
- malfist 2y agoThat's certainly been the atmosphere here lately. The messaging used to be "work on the big ideas, we'll take care of you if the product fails" Amazon would shutter projects and move people around. The past few years though, they just lay everyone off in that project. It has a chilling affect to work new ideas when you know the next round of cost cutting could take your job
- Invictus0 2y agoMost of the Astro team was laid off last year. I spoke with multiple people that had been fired from the team.
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