I’m an AWS employee and I’m tired of the constant stress of looking over my shoulder and worrying about who/what/when of how I say things or what type of project I am investing in, or does my project have the right visibility, or have I made friends with or impressed the right PEs. I’m tired of working in a rigid environment supported/railguarded by a plethora of tools backed by a bureaucratic organization of engineers drinking the koolaid and thwarting ingenuity and my ability to get work done. Because of all of these factors, any small change in my day to day coding, planning or designs causes immense stress and makes me want to be naturally rigid which turns in to a strong personality from me. It’s exhausting and not coming across well to others. All of this in light of a large drop in TC due to stock falloff and lack of refresher RSUs. I’m 5th year of tenure and L5 (promoted 2020). 2021 TC was around $255k. This year is $202k. Im HV1 and have been told by my managers the low rating is on the LP/personality side due to me having a snappy attitude. I’ve had some run-ins with PEs having their heads in the clouds overly simplifying timelines and how complex it is to deliver new project milestones due to them not knowing or working with our day to day crappy tooling. I don’t think I can change my attitude and approach without being stepped on by other engineers or having performance suffer if I become more flexible due to this crappy system I have to work with. Managers don’t help with escalations or people problems. It’s like the wild Wild West. I have the ability to completely leave Amazon and go to a smaller company with better influence and ability to actually get work done and deliver results. The tradeoff is TC will be a higher base pay than Amazon now but no RSUs that can help. New company base pay/TC will be $175k a year. My question for Blind: do we expect to see Amazon RSUs to go back up in price and if I’m HV1 now what’s my likeliness of being put on LE/Focus/PIP? I’ve got 300 RSUs coming next year. Is it worth staying? Thanks in advance. TC: 202k now, used to be 255k pre-drop
And I’m tired of seeing all these similar posts. It’s very obvious that Amazon is shithole and if you have a brain or a family, it’s time to LC>FO
I have both of these and it’s the only reason I even made the OP to begin with. Otherwise I’d stick it out and suck up a bit.
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That’s exactly what I’m worried about.
Lol, like in a Road Runner and Wile E Coyote cartoon. But then how realistic are these cartoons? Same probability. ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ