Amazon CEO doesn’t realize they’ll lose out on talent and miss out on talent.
I’ll never work in office again unless I need to work with machines or hardware I don’t have access to at home.
I’ll never work in office again unless I need to work with machines or hardware I don’t have access to at home.
Employee churn, esp. of the type that replaces long tenured employees with new ones, are often productivity destroying. Good employees that have in-depth knowledge and high capability is worth their weight in gold, and yet they are the most likely to be able to leave under such a churning condition. Losing those sorts of employees are a loss which may not show up in metrics in the short term, but surely it will affect how productive the company will be in the long term.
But churn and burn is Amazon's philosophy. That's why they ask managers to PIP 6% of their reports every year.
Most people overrate their abilities and are expendable -- I suspect Amazon also sees this as a convenient way of getting rid of people who no longer hustle and enjoy the lifestyle of WFH.
I keep trying to bide my time, but all the industries outside of tech I could rely on have been absolutely wrecked by COVID. Remote first companies get 500+ applicants per role and you're lucky if you ever get more than an automated application acceptance these days.
I'm seriously going to pivot to Cyber Security in the hopes that I don't have to deal with office politics, or tech bros with deluded aspirations of C-level rank trying to grind their way to the top of middle management (at best) at this phase of my career (former boot strapping founder that's over and seen enough of disarray the VC and hype machines cause) that lets me just save by not living and commuting in a high CoL area anymore.
I still think I have one more startup in me (one day) so burning out for a corp is not how I want to go out in order to in the right cultural fit in some PM's eyes.
Damn... as an IC are you forced into the machinations on a daily basis or can you actively avoid it by choosing to work remotely even if TC is lower than otherwise could be?
I'm pursuing an AI and ML degree and given where we were 6 months ago I have to be honest with myself and fully admit it feels way more smoke and mirrors driven by hype than anything I have ever experienced even in the early days in Bitcoin (which is saying a lot after ~13 years). And unlike in Bitcoin where we have a liaise fare attitude and selective contribution and forks are a thing to be encouraged, most corps do not see value in what made it what it is today, thus take a very dim light on just 'opting out' of things like office politics as means to get ahead and grind/hustle culture.
The ‘cool’ Cybersec roles like red/blue teaming are much more rare than what I mentioned above, and firewall/splunk stuff is often offloaded to Network teams, especially in this economy where companies are trimming fat and consolidating roles.
I say this as someone who went to Cybersec and left because I’m a technical guy who enjoys sitting at a terminal and building things, learning new tools, sifting through FOSS docs, etc.
Cybersec teams are often filled with people who major in things like Economics and History because the only skill needed for those roles is a good vocabulary, project management, and 6-8 months of entry level technical skills/certs.
Yes, I AM bitter, but I’m damn sure not lying. Avoid any compliance focused Cybersec job if you actually have technical skills that are worth a damn.
To all the people who were hoodwinked into taking this type of job like I was: Its not too late to get out. I did. You can too.
I've seen so many $10's of thousands wasted on pentests which are just nmap/nessus scans wrapped up into a nice PDF. I wish there was more in-depth stuff going on.
The personal computer was a fad. The internet was a fad. Bitcoin was a fad. AI is a fad. Its going to take more than 6 months to materialize. Hang in there.