Indeed. No disrespect to Justin (great person) or any of the engineers who were sacked but Corey's post here is basically "here's someone who was sacked, and here are several other layoff news". AWS is really big organization. Several orders of magnitude bigger than people who were remote/refused to RTO. Organizations like this survive these brain brains.
Internal documents reportedly say that Amazon suffers from 69 percent to 81 percent regretted attrition across all employment levels. In other words, "people quitting who we wish didn't."
I read that as "of 100 people who quit voluntarily, we wish 69-81 of them hadn't". But that number is meaningless without the context of how many people are quitting out of how many are there, not to mention onboarding processes and how fast new hires get up to speed.
> Organizations like this survive these brain brains.
True, that's the other thing. Even if it's true that brain drain directly caused/exacerbated this event, big companies have a lot of momentum. Money can paper over a terrifying range and magnitude of folly. Amazon won't die quickly.
