throwde

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   by throwde 4y ago

   Amazon has a goal to fire 6% every year. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/internal-amazon... That's the controversial part, which for some reason this article doesn't really go into.
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   by throwde 4y ago

   Because it encourages pathological behaviour. Amazon's attrition goal is an open secret everybody knows. Once everybody knows that someone else's success is your failure, people start backstabbing eachother. They stop helping ea
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   by throwde 4y ago

   Another former amazon manager here, I can confirm this. The rule of thumb was %6 URA target and a somewhat larger number into Focus. I never saw any written documentation about the URA goal, HR probably wants to avoid creating a leakable p