Amazon Career Day

Engineers are consistently thrown under the bus. In Amazon, your manager is not there to support your career. Since Amazon has attracted a lot of shady managers, it's a common practice to quietly keep their reports on "dev plan" in HR system without even a sign of performance concern or feedback, and later surprise them with a PIP built on pretext reasons. HR is not there to protect you because your manager's monologue is the source of truth. So often undeserving candidates gets pushed out based on pretext reasons (mentioned in legal PIP document) to meet double digit % of forced PIP targets. Reading such lies about yourself in the emails and the legal documents to be signed, is mentally disturbing and confidence crushing. The average stay in a team at Amazon is less than one year, and the average stay in Amazon is less than 1.5 years. That is why Amazon is always hiring. Managers are rarely PIP'ed for poor performance.