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throwdeon Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s process to review employees’ worth to Amazon

Amazon has a goal to fire 6% every year.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/internal-amazon...

That's the controversial part, which for some reason this article doesn't really go into.

throwdeon Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s process to review employees’ worth to Amazon

Because it encourages pathological behaviour.

Amazon's attrition goal is an open secret everybody knows. Once everybody knows that someone else's success is your failure, people start backstabbing eachother. They stop helping eachother.

The problem is that the attrition target is a quota that all of us had to fill.

throwdeon Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s process to review employees’ worth to Amazon

Another former amazon manager here, I can confirm this. The rule of thumb was %6 URA target and a somewhat larger number into Focus.

I never saw any written documentation about the URA goal, HR probably wants to avoid creating a leakable paper trail. It always came down verbally from my L8. I heard rumors that Amazon's HR boss Galetti is the big advocate of the URA goal, but I was nowhere high enough to be part of those conversations.