Need suggestions for not burning the bridge if I decide to leave after 1 month
I was being down leveled to SDE1 even though I have 4 years of experience and accepted the offer because of the tc increase and I was desperately to leave the previous company. However, I don’t feel like I’ve been given or will be given any meaningful work anytime soon. There are plenty of people in my team and they are already owners of every part of the systems. I interviewed at another company mostly because of the above reason. And they extended a solid SDE2 offer in another state. I know I’m in a really awkward situation. What should I do to not burn the bridge with Amazon in the future? I didn’t mention my Amazon experience to the other company when interviewed with them as well. How should I talk to my manger? Tell him the truth or maybe make some family excuse? Which way is better not to burn the bridge? Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thank you!
At the end of the day, this is YOUR career. If you’re confident that you can’t stick it out/turn things around/advance, then be prepared to leave. If this were my situation, I’d take one of 2 paths. 1: Take my offer to my manager and explain what’s lacking in my current position. If S/he can help turn it around, great, but it’s OK to share that you’re not getting what you need and you have an immediate out. So they can either address it or deal with recruiting to replace you. 2: Resign. People do it every day for every reason. Be professional and don’t make it personal. Offer a standard 2 weeks to transition anything open to others. Again: DON’T MAKE IT PERSONAL. Put everything in the context of getting what you need professionally. If you remain professional, they can’t begrudge you. If they do, they never valued your contribution to begin with.
Thanks for your suggestions! I don’t think I’m going to take path one. Not because I already don’t want to work for Amazon any more. It’s more of putting my manager and me into a really awkward situation and probably will be a blocker for my success at Amazon, at least under this manager. Plus level can’t be budged at all at Amazon. For path two, what do you mean by making it personal. I’m definitely going to give a 2 weeks transaction, if they don’t want to kick me out immediately. I’m wondering what’s the best way to break up peacefully. Telling the manager my true feelings, or just some family excuses like always. I’m not sure which one is better
Not sure what state you’re in but Ca is an at will state. Either side can end the employment relationship for most any reason (not protected by law). As such, I would come in farting on everyone’s workstation and flipping the bird, while saying how much everyone can suck it. Instead (not to say you would either). I’d be profession by ending things on as good of terms as I could. While you don’t own your manager a reason, I’d site why I’m leaving based on what you said in your original post. As I said, you don’t own anyone a reason for your resignation. No matter who asks, you don’t have to cough up a single word as to why if you don’t want to. The feedback helps your manger make the case for changing the system going forward. And leaving on terms where you don’t highlight petulant and arbitrary reasons makes you look as good as you can when leaving after such a short time.
Just do it. I left my last job after 6 months. Seattle and sf are revolving doors
Yeah I think I’ll do it. How did you break up with your previous employer? How did you tell your manger?
First of all, “ownership,” when it comes to work, is overrated. You don’t own anything you can’t take with you. Second, it’s your career. If you’re not satisfied, start looking. You’re probably better off staying at least a year (or however long you have before your signing bonus vests), but nobody will remember that you left Amazon after a month. Just take it off your LinkedIn and your resume and move on.
Well that’s true. However you are not going to get a promotion at Amazon if you don’t owner even a sub module of the system. All I’m doing right now is testing and dev ops stuff. I think I’m going to do it. Just wanted to know what is the best way to break up, kinda awkward to have this conversation with my manger. I’m not sure if I should tell him the truth, or something else
You’re also not going to get promoted after 1 month. You are overthinking this.
Do what makes you feel good, it helps you, your current and future company.
You could have spoken to your manager about your concerns in the first place. At this point I'd go with your option 1.
I did. My manger suggested with some things like has less people competing first, like automating dev ops stuff etc
I assume you talked to your manager and he said “fuck you scrub” before you decided you have no future after only 4 weeks. So my advice is do not put that on your resume. It will look really awkward and be an awkward conversation - if it doesn’t throw up enough red flag that you don’t even get a conversation.
I did and my manger said I can start with some work that has less people computing for, like making dev ops more efficient stuff, etc. And I think I already made the decision, it’s like a earlier promotion for me, instead of betting on my situation will get better. I’m just wondering whether speaking the truth to my manager or mention it’s due to family reason because technically I’ll be moving with my family to another city, whichever way is better for me to not burn the bridge with Amazon
May be give some family reasons and leave. That's the best way to avoid bad blood. Good luck!
I'm being offered an SDE1 position, despite having 5+ years of experience. TC is still higher than all my other offers, but I don't know if I should accept it. What questions should I ask my potential manager before accepting/declining the offer?
I recommend don’t accept it if your expectation is at SDE2 level. It’s not just because of money, but more importantly your expectation of the work might be limited because of that. I can’t say for your case. It all depends whether you trust the manger, just keep in mind things might not like you expected when you start the job. Best of luck!
Just leave for the better opportunity. Life is too short man. Also, no one cares if you stayed at amazon for a month. Do what’s best for your career!
Yeah, most likely I will leave. I’m just wondering if I should tell my manager the truth or make up some family excuse for that
Just tell the truth imo. No one is gonna hate you for leaving for better opportunity