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- Skip level meetings How often do you have skip level meetings? What's the value of such meetings? Is it worth it? Do you bring up issues about your manager/peers in such calls? How do I leverage such meetings to help me grow career wise? Updated: Skip level meetings is where I meet the boss of my manager. TC: $1
- Skip level meeting What should I ask/discuss during a skip level meeting? I am interested in promotion from IC role to management.
- Skip level meetings What is the purpose of such meetings? What all can be discussed?
- Skip level meetings at Amazon? Is it common to have a regular skip level meetings at Amazon? I am a new hire and never had a skip level meeting at my previous job so not sure how it works. Who usually sets up the meeting? How frequently should I have them and what should I talk about? Should I let my direct manager know first be
- Skip level 1:1 meeting Just received an invite from my skip manager for a 15 min 1 to 1 said nothing for me to prepare for, nothing formal, wants to touch base I have a few ideas but not sure exactly what to expect? Should I walk to her and ask before the meeting or ask my direct manager? What was your experience during
- Meeting with skip level manager’s manager (L8) Looking on ideas to discuss with skip level manager’s manager? What have you discussed in the past? I’m new to the team (L5) while we will spent few time on Intro I want to make most out of the meeting. If you are L8 or equivalent at business discussion making level what do you expect out of the me
- vote My skip level meets with some teammates Skip level does 1:1 with only some teammates. Why???
- Skip Level Meeting “What do you want?” I met with my boss’ boss. He asked me what do I want the next level in my career to be. I said I’d like to spend the next few weeks to properly think it through and I appreciate the support I met with my boss’ boss’ boss, earlier this year and he said he would like to see me have a couple direct re
- How to do a skip level meeting? Blind Committee Need Help: My boss is a big time jerk within Amazon and has been here since 20 years. He apparently has got a new boss who is taking his case big time by getting to the granular level and his buttering is not exactly working. I have given poor feedback on Connections and he openly
- How to prepare for a meeting with skip level? Many members of my team have left. My manager simply doesn’t care — I completely hate my current role and need some guidance from management and senior folks. How do I prepare my conversation? Confused as to how I should advocate myself
- Turned in my resignation, skip level manager wants to meet me & HR wants exit interview I know it's generally a positive thing if skip level manager (who also happens to be VP in my case) wants to meet after you turn in your 2 week notice. However my main concern is that I'm leaving because my manager was not very effective, and there were rampant morale issues under my manager. There
- How do you approach a skip level meeting with the head of your department? Why do they have it? How do I take advantage? #projectmanager #USA #Tech
- my manager really cares about the green dot on slack Technically it’s my skip level. My manager had 1:1 with me this week and telling me my skip level really looks at the green dot on slack and told me to be aware of that. Also my skip level would look at who is or isn’t in some meeting (from participant list) - meeting I mean big meeting that has 10
- I setup a meeting with my boss' boss. He reached out to my boss asking what it was about, who in turn asked me about it. Is this normal? Edit: This is a skip level meeting. The purpose was to get face time with my skip manager.
- how to ask for a salary hike meeting with my skip level boss to ask for salary hike .. any suggestions on how to drive this conversation
- Meetings with skips and above Do you hold meetings with your skip level manager or director? What topics do you discuss with them usually?
- Skip level 1:1 Do people normally have skip level 1:1s? At what frequency? What are good topics to discuss in these meetings?
- Skip level 1 on 1 How to optimize the skip level 1 on 1 meeting? What are good topics to talk about other than work update, or give skip information for what he/she wanted? Is it better to have a few meetings focused on work to establish the relationship before asking for what you want? If director manager is put yo
- What to ask your skip manager? I have one on one meetings with my skip manager from time to time. Right now I am pretty happy with my level, pretty happy with my project, pretty happy with my direct manager. What should I ask my skip manager to make the most use of the time?
- What to ask your manager in the first 30 day check-in meeting? So I recently joined Microsoft and have my 30 day check-in meeting(virtual ofcourse) coming up and I’m not sure what to ask my manager who is soon to become my skip level manager? TC -$250k
- Manager toxicity Is it ok to reach out to Satya Nadella when my manager is toxic? I tried talking to the manager, his skip level and HR but its not showing any progress. My teammates have reached out to me on numerous occasions and expressed how uncomfortable they felt for the way he is behaving in the meetings. Ple
- How do you deal with early morning meeting? I used to work at a tech company that rarely have meeting before 10am and now I am having 9am meetings everyday and even 8am meetings. I am a night person who sleep at 3 or 4am everyday for many years. (Trying to change that but didn’t work out) I am struggling with all these morning meetings. I can
- Manager one-on-one with direct reports To all managers - prior to one-on-one with your direct reports please close IM, mobile phone and email. It is frustrating when a manager respond to mails or IM pausing the meeting as if it cannot wait for another 30 minutes. I thought only my manager had this problem, but had a skip meeting two l
- Manager not presenting me well I feel my manager does not defend me well with higher-ups and/or cross teams and try to malign my image behind my back. My yoe is similar to my manager. Once in 1:1, he mentioned about some complaints from other teams which dint seem believable to me. I also did some work which was supposed to menti
- Should I setup skip+1 meetings? Have been L64 for about a year now, senior SDE lead. Have skip meetings every 2-3 mths to basically showcase my leadership skills and technical insight of how I lead my team and give progress updates and roadmap/strategy. So far so good but next level is L65 principal, I know politics and perceptio
- vote Should I leave my job over denied PTO (and other issues)? Hi everyone! Writing this since I’m really disappointed with my new job. I started back in January in a fully remote role. A lot of the people I was supposed to work with quit around the time I joined. My manager (she’s a new one) didn’t really onboard me properly in the first few weeks and month. I
- Manager lied about promotion Long story short, manager said team member was submitted for a promotion from PM2 to Sr PM, claimed the skip level was blocking it. When asked in a meeting, it came out that original manager had never submitted the promotion packet and had lied to team member. What would you do in this situation? H
- Incompetent manager My coworkers and I are extremely unhappy with our manager- he doesn’t meet the technical and leadership bar and got the role by luck. We provided honest feedback and we hope to see some changes from skip level, but nothing has taken place so far. We are all ready to leave the team, if we don’t see
- Skip level wants to chat after I gave my 2 week notice Want some opinions / feedback for a situation I’m dealing with I gave my two week notice and my skip level (sr director / vp level) reached out and wants to meet 1:1 to chat, catch up, and get some feedback (per their invite) Is this a good sign? I’ve had teammates who left recently who didn’t get
- Microsoft revoked offer I received a verbal offer from Microsoft recruiter for a Software Engineering position, followed by a phone call with the hiring manager to talk about the team but the recruiter reached out again to schedule another meeting, this time with both the hiring manager and the skip level manager. I didn't
- Do you do 1:1 with your skip? Been here for 6 months now, when I joined had a great connect with my skip manager. Lately skip has been leveled up and it’s mostly my manager and team member with whom I interact. Skip seems to be very sorted kind of person and also has slots to arrange meeting and talk. I don’t really have anyth
- Any other Intel re-joiners annoyed with this OKR and Insights nonsense? I just rejoined as BB ICE (was regular BB before about 6/7 years ago) , and my manager seems to be hitting on all this OKR shit pretty hard considering me being here for only 3 weeks. ie, filling out static detailed OKR docs, doing project timelines, etc instead of letting me just work on the items
- apple interview - no feedback todays marks end of 10 days since i interviewed at apple... my interview went fine! was able to meet all listed interviewers except for skip level and VP of the org which were listed as tentative ... could not meet them as recruiter said their schedule keeps changing. however that being said , ever
- How do reports give feedback to managers without retaliation? For example, if I think my manager is being toxic, its not like I can say that. I have only taken 3 days off this year yet when I bring up possibly taking time off for the holidays he acts mad, saying how the company is already doing a lot by giving thanksgiving week off, then in team meetings ironi
- Median Comp for E3-E8 levels Level: base/ yearly refresher/ target bonus for “meets all” performance rating E3: 110 / 40 / 10% E4: 140 / 70 / 10% E5/M0: 170 / 120 / 15% E6/M1: 200 / 200 / 20% E7/M2: 240 / 400 / 25% E8/D1: 300 / 800 / 30% Refresher is vested over 4 years, like initial RSU. The base range definitely vary (and d
- vote Should I self promote at work? I work really hard at my company and love what I do. I happily put in 60-80 hours every week and am passionate about it. I find the idea of going to my manager and skip level and telling them everything that I am doing quite nauseating. I feel its cringe to do so just so that I get promoted instead
- vote Horrible manager Had a new manager join a year ago. He is disconnected most of the times with everything that’s going on. He doesn’t pay any attention in meetings / conversations and bugs engineers asking same question again and again and again.He pings engineers separately to do his job also ( like following up wi
- Managing an incompetent manager tl;dr: What to do about incompetent manager? No 360 feedback structure. Skip does not care. — I’m an IC. I got a new manager 8 months ago, who was hired externally. At first, I chalked up red flags to being new and learning Autodesk’s culture. He came from decades+ at a IBM/Cisco/Intel. In recent
- Am I in pip or focus plan? A while ago a skip level manger talked to me about how I need to improve on my productivity and I thought this is just a side suggestion he has on top of everything (my Annual Review was meet expectation), but lately my manger also brought up the same topic and hinted it’s something I need to prove
- vote would an offer be extended? apple —- No I had a call with the recruiter today after my interview she asked me my expectations and details about my unvested stock value which is high thanks to docusign stock value. She didn’t mention me the level or baseline numbers for the role she skipped when I asked. I asked 180base and to meet a tota
- vote Google vs Amazon + l6-l7 promo Currently in seattle, L6 TC: 210 non-tech My manager and skip level made it clear they’d like to put me up for L7 by early next year. I have an internal role that will help me get there (director and VP visibility) and they support me taking it. The role sounds interesting, but similar to what I al
- Will work for PIP Are you an Amazon manager who’s struggling to meet their URA target? Are you having a hard time convincing candidates that they aren’t just being hired as a sacrificial lamb for the team? Well look no further. I would like to take a 6 month “vacation” and can meet the hiring bar while subsequently o
- Disappointed from starting a new position during covid I'm an L6 at Amazon, worked within the same org for a couple of years, and transfered to another org couple of months ago. I must say that so far I feel disappointed. I was used to being on top of things in my previous org, participated in program reviews and had constant meetings with my skip manag
- Facebook M1 Offer Lowball? Just got an offer for an M1 at Facebook. Currently at Amazon, as an L6 SDM. Given my stock has appreciated in the past 3.5 years, I am out of band for L6 (hence why I am looking to move, as even an impending promo wont net me anything extra comp-wise). Recruiter said feedback was strong, skip lev
- Laid off in probation I just got laid off in probation period. I am in Luxembourg where probation period of 6 months is mandatory. I was informed about my termination after my 5 month tenure was completed. Ideally according to policies I should have been informed before the 6th month starts. In the termination meeting, h
- How you deal with lateral move ego Moved from a shitty org to a better company (pay and culture wise). I used to be the senior most well respected person in the team. I left because of skip level manager would only give better projects (VP level visibility) to the folks who licks his b*ll (I think he has just one) and occasionally bl
- Exit notification Hi, I have decided to quit and move over to my next company. I am having trouble getting to inform my manager and give a reasonable notification period. My manager is presently on sabbatical and there is an interim manager who is in charge. She comes in late and leaves early. She has been cancelli
- Delayed promotion - can I escalate this ? YOE : 3.5 TC: 130K Current role : engineer I am having a hard time working in my team. My manager and the director ( my manager's manager) are making my life miserable. I've already started interviewing at other companies. Haven't got an offer yet. I got a 4/5 in the last two annual reviews. Pre
- Should I leave MSFT? Been at MSFT for 4yrs. Reaching end of on-hire stock. L64. My WLB is not great. I spend 60hrs a week between spec writing/thinking and meetings. TC before cliff - 315K TC after cliff - 270k Reasons to stay - on track for principal. 1 year to get accustomed with new Mgr. Skip and director support m
- Amazon Laying Off en masse 2020 Amazon is advertising that they are hiring thousands of people in Seattle but quietly laying off loads of people to make room. It is a publicity stunt. I have 3 friends at Amazon from my previous teams all laid off the same way, all on 3 different teams. Now it is happening to me. This dark side of