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What do you mean "take the money" ? Is it some kind of payout to leave ?

In Amazon, you are intially put on Focus, i.e management start building a case against against your performance (Documentation).

Once focus period ends, you are given option to take Severance or Performance improvement plan (PiP).

That is dehumanizing.

it is, and if we ever get a software engineer union this is one of the first things we should target.