... I saw this on LinkedIn. My heart goes out to that person who's going through mental trauma and stress right now. #JusticeForJW ===== Hi LinkedIn connections! I am ready for my next journey with your company! After I received an offer from Alexa AI, I expressed my intention for an internal transfer to my manager at my current AWS team. Since it is performance review season at Amazon, he quickly sent me into a dev plan (PIP) and blackmailed to my future manager and their supervisor. He has PIP quotas to fill and luckily, dead people can't talk! Yay! So now I am open to work! Recruiters, if you have a job opening that needs a software engineer with solid programming skills, send me a DM! Setting delivery deadline for Monday morning on Friday afternoon? Easy! Paging at 2AM on Saturday? No problem! Being oncall every 4 weeks for a team that lost 50% developers over one year? Piece of cake! I only have one humble request, if I put work over my personal life to meet the deadlines so you can "make the delivery to the principals", do not call me a "Least Effective". Recruiters from Amazon are not welcome, your understanding is much appreciated. (Since I was warned to take down this post, so here is a disclaimer: This LinkedIn account serves my personal purpose to establish effective social interaction with professionals throughout the industry, all my statements are purely based on my personal experience and not indicating any individual or team, all my words can be true, and they can be biased, please have your own judgment) (I didn't expect this post to go on trend, thank you everyone for reaching out to me to provide help. Repost/share is ok, but do not add your own imagination or try to be a story teller. I am already aware of cyberbullying, you are not helping me by hurting more people, and I really DO NOT appreciate social media influencers making story of me to harvest attention and followers.) Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hire-jiawei-wang_hi-linkedin-connections-i-am-ready-for-my-activity-6894943241523875840-tZ7C #tech #Amazon #aws #faang
This is like 5 days old news man. Get with the times
This feels like couple years ago now
I donât understand why Jiawei told his boss he is changing teams allowing him to put him on PIP
You can't change teams without letting your boss know about it? He says he did so after getting an "offer".
Thats not really the point. Manager has to collect data points before putting you on dev list. When changing a team, make it all set and then let your manager know just 2 days in advance.
Itâs not news at all that Amazon has pip culture, but posting directly in LinkedIn wow. Clearly it pushed people across the edge
I'm pretty sure his manager is shamelessly ducking for cover now. This dude's got balls made of steel.
I am wondering if this (or if more posts like this) could be a turning point for Amazon culture. The hire to fire is going too long and I really donât get why it needs to be this. I guess if the business is still stable and booming then it must work.
What can you do besides answering your pager at 2am? If you put work over personal life and achieved shit then your PIP was well deserved. Happens at Google all the time recently.
Are you serious? Google is now pipping folks? I hope it is more anecdotal than an actual pattern, like of Amazon.
It happens in Google now because now lot of people from Amazon have joined Google and they are bringing same culture with them. Culture is driven by people :-)
But why cant one get paged on a Saturday at 2am? I mean if you are on call is it not expected? Not sure I understand was he getting paged on purpose?
Old news, didn't expect this from a meta.
What do you mean? Was this already shared on blind? Can you please share the link, if yes? I'm happy to take it down. I'm not that active on Blind. Haha
You didnât expect something from Meta to be old? đ