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> Jassy explained that as Amazon added headcount, locations and lines of business in recent years, “you end up with a lot more people than what you had before,
by jihadjihad 1y ago
> Jassy explained that as Amazon added headcount, locations and lines of business in recent years, “you end up with a lot more people than what you had before, and you end up with a lot more layers … sometimes without realizing it, you can weaken the ownership of the people that you have who are doing the actual work.”
"And here's something else, Bob. I have eight different bosses right now."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Eight bosses."
"Eight?"
"Eight, Bob."
- standardUser 1y ago> you end up with a lot more people That's a funny way to describe deliberately wasting thousands of work hours screening, interviewing and hiring people they didn't need. It seems like those making these staffing decisions should be the first to go, yet that never seems to be the case.
- warkdarrior 1y agoCorrect. CEO's layoff explanation indicates two things. First, the people who made the hiring decision back then were wrong, since they seemingly hired a lot of people for unneeded roles. Second, the people in charge now lack the vision or ideas on how to put 14,000 already-trained employees to good use on new projects, new products, etc.
- episteme 1y agoYou can do the right thing and still need to reverse the decision. If all the signals in the world suggest you will be able to support more initiatives in future then you should hire. If in the near future the economy changes dramatically and you can't support those hires, you need to let them go.
- standardUser 1y agoYou describe the problem flawlessly. "If all the signals in the world suggest you will be able to support more initiatives... ... then you spend millions hiring and onboarding tens of thousands of people over many months, only to fire those people within a number of years. THIS is why management is paid the big bucks.