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Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate (fortune.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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. I guess you know something Amazon doesn’t.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So your opinion is that Amazon's leadership decisions are always perfect and they have perfect insight into their company and foresight? That leadership of a tech company has never before undervalued the importance of their engineering staff, or how willing they were to quit in the face of an RTO mandate?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think they absolutely know how willing their employees are to quit. It’s been demonstrated over and over again in the tech industry for the last couple years. It is far more likely that they’re counting on it, than are somehow all being blindsided by it. Suggesting that the latter is the case would be a… wild and practically unbelievable assertion to make.