I quit Amazon on a dev plan (prePIP) and now have an offer with Microsoft Azure (sde). How often does one get ZR/PIP at Microsoft compared to at Amazon? UPDATE: To give more context:- I joined AWS as a new grad. I had previously worked on research and theoretical stuff before. During my internship at a different startup I was given the best project award for my hardwork and efforts. I don't believe I'm a slacker, I worked more hours than others and constantly kept watch of my productivity. My manager who put me on dev list said I'm hardworking but need coaching to meet deadlines and so came doom. I did miss deadlines, though it was not due to slacking, but because I was new to the domain and was not good with estimating time a project could take. I underestimated effort because of my new grad optimism. I also took more tasks than I could do in hindsight. Though I still don't know how to estimate effort/time and this scares me. Any advice on this would be great! I have had managers change every few months and my projects were shelved. The team was full of blamers and due to my lack of inter personal skills I ended up on the wrong end. The extent was almost close to bullying (as my psychiatrist explained to me). Now I feel scared and paranoid about this repeating. I see comments asking me to get serious and fix what I did wrong, but it's not completely clear to me as to what went wrong. Lastly, how do I succeed as a software developer?
My dude, get your mind right.
If you continue with your performance trend, you'll get it within the first year. You know what you aren't doing, right? Work on fixing it.
You are quitting dev plan. You don't have any better choice. Just go for it and don't think about all these. Btw, life will be a lot easier than at Amazon.
Regular layoffs are very fun.
Maybe you’re not cut out for this line of work. Not everybody can be a great engineer. That’s okay! There’s plenty of other jobs out there that might better suit your ability/talent.
What a foolish and presumptuous reply. Don't let this dude get to you, OP. Amazon is known to be super uneven as far as quality of life between the various teams and divisions. While you *do* need to do better, they probably didn't set you up for success, either.
Switch! who cares about 6 months, you are new grad and you can always justify it with "I didn't know what i was looking for at that time" etc. People switching their first after 6 months is not something people care about it.
I have an offer from Amazon and these pip stories are making me feel like I shouldn't accept. Pip for New Grad after less than 6 months is just wrong. Instead of guiding and coaching him a bit, bullying and putting him on a dev plan seems unjust.
Good luck man. You will be fine. Bad teammates and managers can really ruin your life. You will be fine. Just keep changing teams until you find a good manager. Don't blame yourself too much before that.
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