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MattGaiser on Feb 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k

> every potentially qualified candidate has already applied and failed an interview, or previously worked at Amazon and quit.

A company so large as to literally run out of humans.

Happened with their warehouse workers too.

https://www.essence.com/news/amazon-burning-through-workers/

sangnoir on Feb 7, 2022 [–]

> A company so large as to literally run out of humans

It's not the size, its the attrition that's the problem. Everything would be fine if they retained employees, but stackranks for the stackrank god.

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