It's quite an interesting strategy and for all Amazon's "long-termism", it's a strategy that seems quite short-term focused.
It may make their current employees decide not to leave, but it may also lower morale and make future recruits not join.
Talk to decision makers deciding which database to buy and see their thoughts about Oracle. Many have been around for decades and have worked for or with the company and refuse to buy their products. This feels like a great way to cement your company as a new Oracle.
Your short-sighted mean-spirited moves helped inspire your most dangerous competitor[1].
From Jack Welch - "I have a phrase: love them on the way out — I teach this to my school — love ’em on the way out the way you love them on the way in. And I’ll tell you another one: a severance dollar is the cheapest dollar you’ll ever spend. Those two things, if you practice that religiously, you’ll stay out of trouble, you’ll be perceived as fair. Maybe not loved, initially, but people will come to respect you. That’s why I have an army of friends. Many people who I let go are some of my closest friends."
Amazon's non-compete was the deciding factor for me not to join the company.
I went through all steps of the recruitment process, but bailed out after receiving the offer. I've had a chat with the hiring contact and I did tell them that I was concerned about the NCA, but they simply waived those away telling me "it's not a big deal". Funnily, even though they were asking if they could change something in the offer to convince me to join, the NCA was something that they wouldn't budge on.
Since me joining Amazon meant moving all the way from Europe, I was really uncomfortable with the prospect of potentially being stuck at Amazon because of that NCA, so I wished them luck and rejected the offer.
> Amazon's non-compete was the deciding factor for me not to join the company.
i would ask for, in advance of signing the non-compete (that lasts for X years) the equivalent of X year's of salary. I'm sure there's room to negotiate this so that the company has to pay out the approximate cost of a non-compete.
that's the way the law works in France. That's why I always receive a nice letter at the end of my contract: "we hereby release you from your non-compete agreement".
Basically you have to write everything about the end of the employment in the employment contract, otherwise you'll get shafted.
In France you do not have to write it, the law regulates this anyway. If you have a non compete, you have compensation.
The good thing with contracts on France (and when buying a house) is that everything is regulated and there is actually little space for any enforceable changes.
Granted, much smaller company. But after I got an offer I was given a ton of unusual documents to sign. Giving away all rights to my image as one odd ball.
I refused to sign several of them.
Hiring manager was highly confused. But was fine with it. Wasn’t a big deal to them at all.
Surprised me, because I almost walked away because of it.
Yeah, this approach of burning bridges is shocking to me. I work in the video games industry and people very frequently leave...only to return in 2-3 years again. Company hopping is very frequent(for various reasons, main of which is money) but most people seem to understand that you cannot, under any circumstances, burn bridges on either side. The junior leaving you now might come back as a senior in 4 years time. The company that is unwilling to pay you more now, will happily hire you back at 2x the salary in 3 years time. You can't afford to be mean to leaving employees or former employers.
Similar situation in the VFX industry. Post-employment NCAs would devastate this industry and ruin the lives of thousands of individuals with how this industry works. And add more spots on the map of which studios to completely avoid.
> It may make their current employees decide not to leave, but it may also lower morale and make future recruits not join
Based on several discussions I've had with former coworkers and the numerous discussions on Blind and Reddit, morale may be pretty low already, especially for everyone in non-senior roles. Seems to be common knowledge that Amazon has a PIP quota, and people are terrified of it.
It may make their current employees decide not to leave, but it may also lower morale and make future recruits not join.
Talk to decision makers deciding which database to buy and see their thoughts about Oracle. Many have been around for decades and have worked for or with the company and refuse to buy their products. This feels like a great way to cement your company as a new Oracle.
Your short-sighted mean-spirited moves helped inspire your most dangerous competitor[1].
From Jack Welch - "I have a phrase: love them on the way out — I teach this to my school — love ’em on the way out the way you love them on the way in. And I’ll tell you another one: a severance dollar is the cheapest dollar you’ll ever spend. Those two things, if you practice that religiously, you’ll stay out of trouble, you’ll be perceived as fair. Maybe not loved, initially, but people will come to respect you. That’s why I have an army of friends. Many people who I let go are some of my closest friends."
[1]https://observer.com/2019/07/walmart-ecommerce-strategy-amaz...