Amazon has spent most of its HR post-pandemic efforts in:
• Laying off top US engineering earners.
• Aggressively mandating RTO so the senior technical personnel would be pushed to leave.
• Other political ways ("Focus", "Below Expectations") to push engineering leadership (principal engineers, etc) to leave, without it counting as a layoff of course.
• Migrating serious, complex workloads to entry-level employees in cheap office locations (India, Spain, etc).
This push was slow but mostly completed by Q1 this year. Correlation doesn't imply causation? I find that hard to believe in this case. AWS had outages before, but none like this "apparently nobody knows what to do" one.
• Laying off top US engineering earners.
• Aggressively mandating RTO so the senior technical personnel would be pushed to leave.
• Other political ways ("Focus", "Below Expectations") to push engineering leadership (principal engineers, etc) to leave, without it counting as a layoff of course.
• Terminating highly skilled engineering contractors everywhere else.
• Migrating serious, complex workloads to entry-level employees in cheap office locations (India, Spain, etc).
This push was slow but mostly completed by Q1 this year. Correlation doesn't imply causation? I find that hard to believe in this case. AWS had outages before, but none like this "apparently nobody knows what to do" one.
Source: I was there.