I know a few companies that treat their engineers very well (remote, good pay, equity, no overtime, ~6 weeks vacation) and they’ve barely lost anyone.
Companies like Amazon should learn from this, but they likely won’t unless their employees unionize.
Can you share names? Asking for a friend ... Although if they are small companies, I would be wary of anecdata... The narrative sounds good but small companies are more likely than large companies to exhibit extreme behavior in any metric, and it's likely that there's some confirmation bias in reporting what works / doesn't work
that’s true, and unless you trust someone in the inside you can’t rely on a company reporting accurately about themselves… plus the tide at a small company can turn in an instant, just look at basecamp
I keep getting AWS recruiters contacting me and I'm pretty sure I am nowhere near qualified
I think it’s worse at Amazon, but I don’t have any hard data to support that belief.