Ironically, Amazon already silently cuts 6% of their corporate workforce each year through performance management. At 300K corporate employees, that's <drumroll> 18K layoffs. Will they continue to cut 6% in 2023 on top of the layoffs?

In comparison to other big tech companies, Google has a pretty low bar for tolerating bad performers. Their hiring process is tough (for engineers at least) but once you're in it's pretty hard to get fired. Source: Big tech hiring manager.