Signs that it’s time to leave a company… | by adrian cockcroft | Jan, 2024 | Medium
When the company stops growing, when the founder moves on, when HR is calling the shots, when the executives care more about real estate than products… It’s time to leave, and find a new company to work for. I joined AWS about seven years ago, when it was growing fast, there was headcount and flexibility in hiring, and Amazon was famously cheap about the office space it occupied. I retired a year and a half ago, and many of the people I worked with have also left. Justin Garrison hasn’t even left yet, and he just wrote a critical blog post “Amazon’s Silent Sacking” about the way they are pushing people out. What changed? Growth slowed. When companies transition from high growth to slow growth or begin shrinking it isn’t just a small change, it needs a fundamentally different approach to management and the culture of the company. I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Adding headcount and budget every year covers up all kind of prob
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