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AWS VP spins employee question about engineer turnover as a good thing — “It's making us better.” & “Frugality breeds innovation for us.”::An AWS VP answered employee questions over attrition by spinning it as a good thing.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


It is one of the many challenges AWS employees are currently dealing with, alongside slowing growth and a more bureaucratic culture, as BI previously reported.

In email to BI, Amazon's spokesperson, Rob Munoz, said employee attrition at AWS has declined in recent years.

As we've previously told Insider, attrition among AWS employees has declined in recent years and to suggest anything otherwise is inaccurate.

Prasad made the point that frugality breeds innovation because it necessitates prioritization, and this helps us build better products for our customers," Munoz said in a statement.

AWS also lost some of its most high-profile executives, including former SVP Charlie Bell, marketing chief Rachel Thornton, and data center VP Chris Vonderhaar, in the past two years

Kalyanaraman, the AWS VP, said at the meeting that employees should look into using generative AI technologies at work because it can help them become more productive.


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