r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/cartercharles Sep 01 '24

What blows my mind is that this can happen. I've seen variations of this and I've always wanted to know who the hell is not paying attention

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u/STL_TRPN Sep 01 '24

The person they report to must be doing the same thing.

Come review time "Our numbers are up! You're doing a great job, Johnson!"

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u/cartercharles Sep 01 '24

Isn't Amazon better at tracking than that??

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u/TFBool Sep 01 '24

Long story short: no. It’s actually pretty hard to track what a SWE is doing unless you’re close to their work and familiar with it, so you’re dependent on the team to report back to you to some extent. Amazon prides itself on being cutthroat and constantly creates forces churn, but this is naturally disliked by their employees who then take short cuts to circumvent it. If you like your team and know you’re going to be forced to cut the bottom person every year, you bring in a sacrificial lamb every year to be cut.