from Gergely Orosz | by Gergely Orosz

With Amazon announcing they will allow remote work* *with and only with approvals from L7/L8 Let me share how I’ve observed lots of long-tenured engineers & EMs leave Amazon recently. A hot market where Amazon caliber talent can get a lot more probably doesn’t help either. t.co/2pwtoTzUzZ

Note that this for the US. In EU, Amazon still pays well (well… most companies don’t) and the infamous Amazon “PIP culture” is not present, thanks to strict employee protections. I predict Amazon will expand more outside the US. Source of first image: t.co/eH4i2PY2Bm

Amazon has mastered paying for the least overall amount of cash for the type of world-class engineers they need (people building at scale), optimising the math for maximum tenure. Basically, they are being the cheapest among the higher paying companies. This also bites them now.