Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?
This is a great example of culture clash. In the US, being cut means nothing, you&#x27;ve always got to be ready for another job search. Only a few workplaces (Govt, places with strong unions, full professors) have any protection against retrenchment or arbitrary firing. But in India, jobs are careers for life, and your employer is part of your personal brand. The cachet of AMZN is great, until you realize they are going to fire 20% of you every year. People will say &quot;they must have fired him for a reason&quot; because they don&#x27;t understand it&#x27;s just about metrics.<p>It&#x27;s also common in India to solve problems by throwing people at it (and indeed the US if it involves minimum wage workers) rather than difficult tasks like fixing the root cause or improving the process. It&#x27;s also super hierarchical (I recall watching the manager watching the engineer, who watched the junior engineer, who watched the tech type at the console, telling him what to do), encouraging lots of butt kissing. So overstaffed teams, 1&#x2F;3 of whom do not much, 1&#x2F;3 (with replacement) who suck up ferociously to their manager, plenty of drudge work, and fear of the stigma of being fired. Great combination.