5 years at Amazon. Had good first 4 years. The org is a sinking ship. So many politics. I was put on devlist three months ago. My manager is a useless lier and he is probably on devlist, too. My skip manager was in trouble and got moved to another team with no reports at all. I started job hinting immediately after I knew I was on the list. Now I have got three offers and accepted one. 150% of my current TC. Start date is mid July. H1b transfer is being prepared. what should I do from now till then? 1. work hard and try to get out of the devlist, so that I have a good closure with Amazon. However, I don’t trust my manager that he would help me. 2. complete only the essential work and use up all the vacations and pto till the day I resign. I will not be able to come back to Amazon if I leave on devlist. 3. fight for myself and appeal to the hr to report the unfairness. worst case is to get into pip. I can at least have my voice heard and also get a severence package on exit. I might get a record on my employment background for this and future company may find out.
Take the damn severance
I would literally not do any work anymore
Take severance and leave. If you have stocks vesting in July then you can stall dev list till then. Fighting DL is not worth it, it will only cause stress and frustration. You can choose to relax till July take severance and leave.
I do have stocks vesting in July. dunno how to make pip happen right after the vesting day and before the start day
Try to negotiate end date with manager so that you get stocks too. But if that is not possible and your new employer is not ready to wait till July, you can take severance and enjoy till your last day at Amazon.
I'd just rub out the headless chicken and chill out with some nice Netflix shows and some edibles. That's what I did when I made my escape from Amazon.
That sounds nice. Did you get pip and severance eventually?
When you say headless chicken what do you mean?
don't use up vacation since it gets paid out.
Do not use vacation and try to get pivot, DO NOT LEAVE WITHOUT SEVERANCE! Even if you have to push the start date in the new company by a few weeks. Relax, and don’t deliver!
Can you ask for severance?
Do you plan to join on H1B receipt? Or is it expected to be done by July in such a short time?
Plan to join on H1b receipt
Wait. You have another offer and you’re stressing about all this? Dude. Grab a beer. The shits over. Take a break. Save your energy for the new place.
Take the dam PIP
Tell me how. say no to all the given tasks?
@OP yup stop delivering any tasks and have a 1:1 with the manager and tell him that he can go ahead and initiate the PIP as you are not motivated to work on the devlist tasks. There is no point of fighting dev list and you should never think of amazon as an option in future, it's not worth it!