This is usually an early warning that layoffs or firings are coming. Also, if Amazon's managers don't know what their reports are doing and their impact, then what are they doing?

Amazon probably does have tons of internal bloat, but if they think this is going to help them fix that they are sorely mistaken. And this is a bad sign for people invested into amazon.

This just sounds like more evidence that most middle management is unable to accurately measure productivity, hence their oft-repeated lie of "remote workers aren't productive".

What even is the point of these roles, if they can't measure the productivity of their reports, and when pushed for it, have to ask the people in question what their best work is.

When the managers at your employer start asking you questions like you'd hear from people who don't know you at an interview, alarm bells should be screaming in your head.

Mgmt has no idea what their reports are doing. Fire the mgrs!

Meta already has had this for a long time. Employees must demonstrate and justify impact for work to be done and for performance reviews. The crucial difference being that, not uniformly, but generally Meta is less adversarial and paranoid in treatment of engineers.

Did Andy Jassy go to the Elon Reeve Musk School of Business?