Today is my last day in Kindle. I had a very bad experience with managers here. Suddenly my manager had put me in Dev list for performance issues. When asked for a proper plan and tasks he used to give random tasks and projects. Then finally I was put in PIP. I worked as expected and still manager said you are not performing at the bar for the SDE1 in Amazon during my Dev list time. Since I had all data and work which was done during the period I went for an appeal and came out of it. They create insecure and unsafe environment to work. I have a had tough time for almost 1 year. Please don't join Kindle Conent store team for godsake. You will not have a nice career in Amazon if you join KindleDigitalStore Fuck Kindle Managers #KindleContentStore #DigitalBookStore
Sorry that you had to go through that but I hope you learnt something from that process.
Indeed a great lesson. Keep your work related data and wikis mails etc to be always safe
Amazon is fucked up company
Why is Amazon's culture like this?
This is one sided story. Things usually do not happen "suddenly". You may have a very different expectation about performance than your manager's all along.
I just left Kindle as well. Lots of circle jerking in upper management convincing each other their work is impactful. Lots of legacy garbage systems and tribal knowledge. Lots of internal politicking. Chill work environment but dubious outlook. Good thing Jeff likes kindle because amazon started in books.
Which part of kindle is this in ? Which L8/L7 ?
Kindle Content store. Front end teams.
This can be any team I think, you're rolling the dice if you don't already know the manager
This is especially with Kindle Conent store org. I heard other organizations are much better