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LOLs. I just read an Reddit item that "morale terrible at one FAANG and everyone's leaving". It wasn't Meta or Google, so that sorta narrows it down. Coincidentally, I met someone leaving AWS.

You can have the best business model and product in the world, but if you abuse your employees, they will leave (or unionize) and it will all come tumbling down.

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can confirm, am an Amazon engineer, morale is terrible, am also leaving this month.

That has been true for Amazon for a long time. They rely on having a revolving door of engineers. Managers have firing targets they must meet. New hire stocks vest on a 5/15/40/40 schedule over 4 years (over the standard 25/25/25/25), so it's directly beneficial to the company to replace engineers before they hit year 3.

Looking at the share price for Amazon and other big tech companies over the last year, that vesting schedule has been a positive for new starters.

huh? amazon is down 10% on the year. All that's done is demoralize the new hires further.

I was just curious - do managers and I guess non-developer roles face this same kind of competition? Or if you're a developer should you just shoot for some other role so you can be safe and load work onto the developers?

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