Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The problem being that the ones moving on to other jobs are the actual talent. Unlike a targeted layoff, this leaves Amazon with the employees no one else wanted.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s assuming the real talent wasn’t secretly given exception to this. And in any case, what’s important isn’t having the best talent, it’s making the numbers look better for end of year.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is pessimistic trash not worth posting.

      No, Amazon is still very dependent on their software engineers, and no, it’s actually quite easy to move cloud offerings and they face stiff competition from both Azure and GCP amongst others.

      Literally every virtually every single internal piece of HR and management software at Amazon is written by software teams at Amazon. You fundamentally do not understand how big tech companies operate if you think they can afford to hemmorage engineering talent without impacting their bottom line in a multitude of ways.

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You fundamentally do not understand how big tech companies operate if you think they can afford to hemmorage engineering talent without impacting their bottom line in a multitude of ways.

        Evidently Amazon doesn’t either then since, you know, they’re literally doing it.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Anyone reliant on cloud offerings is stuck.

      There are multiple public clouds. AWS is not the default choice a company uses for a public cloud offering anymore.

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      • elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Heck, I’ve heard the argument “We’re in retail [or insert other fittig market segments here] and Amazon is a direct competitor. Why the heck should we give them any money or any data*?” several times from several companies.

        (*Where data not necessarily only meant giving them “company data” but e.g. also metadata about usage, etc. which cannot be avoided and which might give Amazon some insights)

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Realistically there’s AWS and Azure, and with Azure being run by Microsoft it’s not like it’s going to be better in anyone’s minds. Google’s is a VERY distant third with no real shot to take over, and everything else is a rounding error.

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