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At Amazon, that would be called Unregretted Attrition.

So, teams are known to hire people, fully expecting to turn around and fire them before the end of the year. That way, they can provide the churn that is required, without actually losing any of the people they might want to keep.

I didn’t actually see that on either of the teams I worked on, but I certainly heard plenty about it.




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