Amazon

Pay is okay. Benefits are okay. Great peers to work with.

Very stressful. No work-life balance. You go to work every day not knowing if your job is on the line.

PIVOT or PIP programs, whatever you want to call them, they are there. Amazon has a goal to cut a certain number of employees each year.

The company has a metric called “unregretted attrition rate” (URA), which represents the percentage of employees it would like to see leave the company – voluntarily or otherwise.

Amazon employee reviews resemble stack ranking, a performance review system in which employee performance is evaluated on a curve and a certain percentage of employees must be ranked at the bottom.

Pivot gives employees accused of underperforming a choice between leaving voluntarily or signing onto a rigorous work improvement plan to test their mettle.

Amazon managers have routinely used Pivot as a weapon to edge out employees for a slew of reasons unrelated to low performance—some of them potentially illegal.

Get rid of your metrics metric called “unregretted attrition rate." You are a growing company that cannot sustain the rate you are going. The company right now is a revolving door and not a very good place to work, as you are in constant fear for your job. This means less production from employees and low morale. The job is just a job, not a career, due to this.