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Amazon warns workers to come back into the office
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It is less random than you think.
Total head count is usually decided by senior management, who may either order cuts across the board or target certain parts of the company.
After that, a process gets chosen to pick who goes. They may target a specific level of staff, go based on a set of internal metrics including seniority, or even let lower level managers get input on the decision.
It is rarely the CEO directly telling people who should be fired, but it isn't like they just pull names from a hat.
Seniour leadership usually has no idea which teams are needed and which ones are not.
But it isn't random.
I can assure you it happened. A C-level decided who should be let go, of course the list was dumb, they still all got fired and no one who knew anything about who should be let go had anything to say about it.