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“The complaint argues the plan was designed to ensure Ghaderi's failure.

For example, the first goal required her to create a plan to reduce data storage costs across the entire AmazonBot web crawling organization by 75 percent in just eight workdays.”

If that is true, that’s pretty absurd.

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Turn it off 75% of the time. Or subsample urls with probability 25%.

In all seriousness, I’m not sure the particulars of the plan even matter since the purpose is to get rid of an employee, not to actually be achieved.

Redirects S3 to /dev/null and points out that data consistency wasn’t their OKR.

I think the way this is worded is deliberately misleading. It's worded as if she needed to actually reduce the costs in eight days, but it can also be read as "create a plan in just eight work days". And that should certainly be doable. In fact you could do a little bit of research and then write the vast majority of that plan doc with AI and it would likely be good enough.

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