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  • tgma 11 hours ago
    Imagine the bottom 14000 managers from Amazon on the loose getting jobs elsewhere and spreading the worst parts of its culture around in other companies. Effectively unleashes a biological virus at other FAANGs and smaller companies. Good job Amazon.
    • phendrenad2 3 hours ago
      What makes you think they're really the bottom?
    • linotype 10 hours ago
      To the contrary, the ex-Amazon managers I’ve worked with explicitly tell me they avoid implementing ideas from Amazon in terms of management.
      • 39896880 9 hours ago
        Yes. Ex-Amazon here. The part where I horse-trade putting engineers on PIP so I can keep my UAR up -- I don't spread that to other companies because it's toxic as fuck and leads to my friends on H1Bs getting deported.
  • BugsJustFindMe 9 hours ago
    How any company has 14000 extra managers is just beyond me.
    • tonyedgecombe 8 hours ago
      Amazon has 1.5 million employees, they probably have 100,000 managers.
  • blackeyeblitzar 8 hours ago
    > Jassy also introduced a "bureaucracy tipline" that allows employees to report unnecessary procedures that hinder their work, according to the report.

    Would anyone actually use that? For example if you were complaining about the bureaucracy of dealing with your manager's process, you might face retaliation. Or worse, a lot of the bureaucracy may actually be due to the edicts of higher up executives.

    Or is this just a stunt to virtue signal efficiency?

    • rkwz 7 hours ago
      Is there more info on how this "bureaucracy tipline" works?

      More often in big companies, the processes keeps getting bigger and more convoluted as time passes by.

      Usually the change in process is approved by higher ups, but they might not have full visibility of the process as they're not the ones who are going through these processes (people below them are).